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Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 48, Issue 278

In the news

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Dunleavy takes lead for GOP governor’s race

Fish heads dumped near Anchorage school attract bear, police

Gillham, Carpenter, Vance leading as Republican nominees, absentees yet to be counted

ANCHORAGE (AP) — Anchorage police are looking for a man who dumped fish heads in woods near an elementary school. The perpetrator won’t have to clean up. A grizzly bear took care of that. The fish dumper, however, faces a $300 fine for discarding garbage that attracts animals. Alaska families regularly catch dozens of salmon and are urged to properly dispose of fish parts in fast-moving rivers, ocean waters or regular garbage disposal. The incident occurred July 31 at Ravenwood Elementary School. A summer school host spotted a man and boy on an all-terrain vehicle with coolers. The host found the fish heads behind the school but they were gone a day later. The host said a bear seen earlier likely cleaned up the fish. A school security camera captured the suspect’s image.

Editor’s note: This article will be updated online with the final election results when they are available. Only 60.4 percent of precincts had reported results as of press time Tuesday night. Primary election results Tuesday night preliminarily showed Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Dunleavy in the lead.

By Clarion staff Peninsula Clarion

Dunleavy, of Wasilla, was leading the race with 60.8 percent of the vote by press time Tuesday night with 60.4 percent of precincts reporting and absentees yet to be counted. He is leading five other Republican hopefuls for the nomination. Republican Mead Treadwell has the next highest number of votes, with 32.8 percent. Democrat Mark Begich See VOTE, page A10

Election leaders (Tuesday, 10:30 p.m.) Governor Republican nominee: Mike Dunleavy Democratic nominee: Mark Begich Lieutenant governor Republican nominee: Kevin Meyer Democratic nominee: Debra Call U.S. House of Representatives Republican nominee: Don Young Democratic nominee: Alyse Galvin

House District 29 Republican nominee: Ben Carpenter Democratic nominee: Shawn Butler House District 30 Republican nominee: Gary Knopp House District 31 Republican nominee: Sarah Vance Democratic nominee: Paul Seaton Senate District O Republican nominee: Ron Gillham

Red return Kenai River to reopen to sockeye salmon fishing By ELIZABETH EARL Peninsula Clarion

Sockeye anglers can again hit the Kenai River this week. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game issued an emergency order Tuesday reopening the Kenai River to sockeye salmon fishing effective Thursday at 12:01 a.m. The river has been completely closed to sockeye angling since Aug. 4, when Fish and Game closed the river to help the run meet the optimum escapement and inriver escapement goals. Since then, returns have improved, meeting the inriver escapement goal of 900,000–1.1 million fish on Monday with 926,917 fish past the sonar. On Thursday, the river reopens with a bag limit of three fish per day with six in possession, according to a news release issued Tuesday. “Sockeye salmon harvest that occurred prior to the closure August 1 and any additional harvest that may occur for the remainder of the season are not expected to result in escapement below the SEG,” the release states. The announcement doesn’t apply to the Upper Kenai River and the Russian River, which closed to sockeye salmon retention Monday for the season. Sockeye salmon runs across the Gulf of Alaska have come back weaker than managers forecast, leading to closures in personal use, sport, subsistence and commercial fisheries from Yakutat to Chignik. Reach Elizabeth Earl at eearl@peninsulaclarion.com.

Fish counts Estimated late run kings in the Kenai River: n Monday: 285 n So far: 16,957 Estimated Kenai River reds: n Monday: 27,787 n So far: 926,917 Russian River reds weir count: n Monday: 1,213 n So far: 52,612

Information provided by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Sonar estimates can be obtained by calling 262-9097.

Correction In the story “Voters take to ballot boxes Tuesday” that ran Aug. 21, it was incorrectly stated that voters had to be registered Republicans to vote in the primary. Both Republicans and nonpartisan and unaffiliated voters can vote in the Republican primary. The Clarion regrets the error.

Bubbles, buses and backpacks Kenai Peninsula students return to school for another year TOP: Friends unite on the first day of school, Tuesday, Aug. 21, at Mountain View Elementary in Kenai. (Photos by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion) RIGHT: Students settle into their classrooms on the first day of school, Tuesday, Aug. 21 at Mountain View Elementary in Kenai.

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New memorial goes up where teen overdose victim was found By MATT TUNSETH Chugiak-Eagle River Star

ANCHORAGE (AP) — What was once the scene of heartbreak is being transformed into a place for healing. A new memorial bench is being built on the St. John Orthodox Cathedral property near South Birchwood Loop where the body of a 19-year-old overdose victim was dumped in 2017. “I think it’s pretty cool a place that was once known as somewhere kids used to drive down and get high is now go-

ing to be a spot of reflection and hope,” said Alaina Thiessen, whose son, Zac Schneider, was found lying dead on the ground on May 16, 2017. The site alongside the road has been used as an informal memorial for Schneider since his death, but the land is owned by the church. Father Marc Dunaway said the church decided it would be good to create a simple bench and pavilion on the site where people could go for reflection. “The parish council began to think if we build a bench this summer, maybe we should

build it there,” as a memorial to Schneider, he said. The church reached out to Thiessen to see if she’d be interested in a church-sponsored memorial. “She was very receptive to the idea,” Dunaway said. He said the project is part of an ongoing effort by the church to make the gravel roadside pullout less attractive to people who are up to no good. In addition to the memorial, the church has also installed a new gate that blocks off a short dead-end road that was blocked from view from the main road.

“It goes kind of far back and people have been pulling in there and doing things they shouldn’t be doing,” Dunaway said. The new memorial — which includes a concrete pad, a simple iron bench and a small wooden pavilion — was built by the church’s youth corps, a group of about a half-dozen teens who do maintenance and odd jobs around the church during the summer. Youth corps leader Stephen Peyton said the program is a great way for young people to learn job skills while also helping out the

church. “It’s just a really good first job opportunity for these guys, they learn about work ethic and about working as a team,” said Peyton, a 2017 Eagle River High grad and current engineering student at the Colorado School of Mines. “And the church gets a lot of grunt work done.” A ceremony to dedicate the new bench will be held later this year. The memorial will be combined with a small plaque, and Thiessen said she’d like to include information about how See HEAL, page A10

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.04" Month to date ........................... 2.23" Normal month to date .............. 1.75" Year to date .............................. 9.48" Normal year to date ................. 8.64" Record today ................. 0.84" (1963) Record for August ........ 5.39" (1966) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963)

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Support for school choice growing among Republicans By MARIA DANILOVA Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Support for charter schools and private school voucher programs has gone up over the past year, with Republicans accounting for much of the increase, according to a survey published Tuesday. The findings by Education Next, a journal published by Harvard’s Kennedy School and Stanford University, come as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos promotes alternatives to traditional public schools. Forty-four percent of respondents in the poll conducted in May said they support the expansion of charter schools, compared to 39 percent in 2017. The gain of 5 percentage points, however, did not fully offset the drop in support from 51 percent in 2016. When broken down according to party affiliation, 57 percent of Republicans and 36 percent of Democrats voiced support for charter schools, compared to 47 percent of Republicans and 34 percent of Democrats in 2017. “Support is up among Republicans for various strategies to expand school choice, and the Trump administration’s embrace of those policies is a likely explanation,” said Martin West, associate professor of education at Harvard University and a co-author of the report. Nina Rees, president of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools said the findings “demonstrate through the educational choices they make for their children - families want high-quality charter school options for their kids. “Above all else, parents care that their child has access to an excellent school, and as education advocates it is our job to ensure that wish becomes a reality,” Rees added. Support for publicly funded vouchers given to low-income families to help them pay tuition at private school rose from 37 percent to 42 percent over the past year. The Education Department welcomed the results of the

In this June 5, 2018, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies during hearing on the FY19 budget on Capitol Hill in Washington.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

poll. “The data consistently show that parents want more education options for their kids and when they are empowered with options, they like it and their kids benefit,” said press secretary Elizabeth Hill. “Education freedom is the future.” Some experts, however, were skeptical. Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, welcomed the increased support for charters, but noted that it has risen almost entirely among Republicans. “I don’t think that an education policy that’s designed to get better outcomes for kids should ever be a partisan issue,” Lake said. Scott Sargrad with the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said the question on vouchers was misguided because it didn’t mention that funds going to private schools will be diverted from public schools. “In reality, when given that choice, parents and teachers overwhelmingly agree that public money should support the public schools that serve 90 percent of our nation’s students,”

Sargrad said in a statement. Meanwhile, Americans seem to be more satisfied with their local police and the post office than with their neighborhood school. While 51 percent of respondents said they would give their local schools a grade of A or B, 68 percent gave the local post office a similar grade and 69 percent the local police. “It makes sense that only 50 percent of Americans are giving their public school a good grade of an A or a B that they would express support for alternatives

to those public schools,” said Patrick McGuinn, a professor of political science and education at Drew University. In the Black Lives Matter era, African-American respondents gave their local police much lower marks than other respondents, but their views of their local schools were even worse. Thirty-nine percent gave their local schools an A or a B, while the local police force received such marks from 43 percent of African-American respondents.

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Around the Peninsula

Obituaries

CIRCAC to hold meeting

Bonnie Letitia Carter Bonnie Letitia Carter of Soldotna, AK, age 75, died at home in Soldotna on Monday, August 20, 2018 surrounded by family, friends and her faithful rescue dog, Ricky. She was born to Harold Lloyd and Gladys Ellen Owen Whitson on April 20, 1943 in Everett, WA. She was the eldest of five children. Harold Wayne Carter Sr. and Bonnie were married in Tonasket, WA on June 20, 1961. The family moved to Ketchikan, AK in 1969 and settled in Kenai, AK in 1975 where they raised their four children Wayne, Meg, Cathy and Shane. Bonnie always had an open door policy. Whether you were human or critter, you were always welcome into their home. An applicable family motto would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;The more, the merrier.â&#x20AC;? At times, the number of family and friends nestled into their home looked like a cord of wood. The home never lacked animal companionship. For family stopping in, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t uncommon to see a new family pet. Not only would they be helping anyone they opened their door for, she was known for helping complete strangers and hitchhikers. We think she would see them and figure, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, they look like they could use help, why not?â&#x20AC;? She always had an unwavering passion for her family, friends, learning, nature and art â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially painting. The family will be holding a graveside service at Spruce Grove Memorial Park Kasilof, AK. Following the service, a celebration of life will be held at their home at 50805 Sterling Hwy, Soldotna, AK. Bonnie will be smiling from above knowing that her open door policy is still in affect having her friends and family together under one roof. For more information regarding arrangements, please contact Cathy Carter at (907) 360-1848 or Meg Carter at (907) 252-6640. She is survived by her husband Harold Wayne Carter; her brother Kerry Wright; her four children Wayne Carter, Meg Carter, Cathy Carter and Shane Carter; her grandchildren Sasha (Jordan Graham), Keith (Sarah Porter), Steven Carter, Abbie Carter, Brooke Badura, Chance Badura, Korbin Carter and Kalvin Carter. Her great-grandchildren Myla Graham, Adalyn Graham and Kian Porter.

Charles Phillip Grabowski October 16, 1944 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; August 5, 2018 Charles Phillip Grabowski was born October 16, 1944 in Raleigh, North Carolina and passed away August 5, 2018 at the Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna surrounded by family, friends, and his partner Lewis Davis. He was raised in North Carolina and moved to Ninilchik, Alaska in 1951. He studied to be a hairstylist in Anchorage and was working in downtown at the time of the 1964 earthquake. Phillip also was a student at the Leon Leonardo School of Art. In the late 1960â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to mid 1970â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Phillip lived in Bellevue, Washington to be near family. In 1957, he moved back to Ninilchik and resided on the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homestead property. Phillip worked with Kathleen at Kathleenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hair salon in Soldotna for many years while making countless friends on the peninsula. Phillip always had a great love and talent when it came to painting and studied art at the local college. He became a prolific painter of various things as well as Alaskan scenery. Phillip also had a deep love and curiosity for animals and worked as a veterinary assistant for a period of time. Phillip is survived by his mother Sophia of Kenai, AK; his brother Michael of Tacoma, WA; his brother Brent of Irving, CA; his brother John Marq of Anchorage, AK; his sister Lori Bartlett of Cooper Landing, AK; and his longtime partner Lewis Davis of Ninilchik, AK. He will always be in our hearts and remembered by his family and friends for his unique personality, warmth, lively sense of humor and his love for animals, painting and Alaska. Rest in peace.

The Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Environmental Monitoring Committee (EMC) teleconference meeting will be hosted in Kenai on Friday, August 24th at 8am to 9.30am at the Cook Inlet RCAC Office, 8195 Kenai Spur Hwy, Kenai, AK 99611. The public is welcome to attend. For directions or more information call 907-283-7222 or 800-652-7222. Cook Inlet RCAC is a non-profit corporation mandated by Congress in 1990 to provide citizen oversight of the production and transportation of crude oil in Cook Inlet. Keeping citizens of Cook Inlet informed of our meetings is an important mandate, and we appreciate your willingness to help us promote our public meetings for our Board.

sausage, scrambled eggs, pancakes and biscuits and gravy. Cost is $10 adults, $5 children. Everyone welcome. All proceeds to benefit the center. Further info, call 262-6806.

Harvest Moon Farm Tour Wondering what it takes to produce and sell food on the Kenai Peninsula? On Saturday, Sept. 8, tour three local farms that have met the challenge in unique ways. Taste a variety of Alaska Grown wines to complete the tour. This tour, sponsored by Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District and Kenai Local Food Connection, is the special kick-off event for Harvest Moon Local Food Week. Tickets: $50, include a wine tasting at Alaska Berries. See the full schedule of Harvest Moon events at www.KenaiLocalFood.org.

Root beer fun run to benefit Hospice

The first annual Hospice Root Beer Fun Run will take place Saturday, Sept. 8 beginning at 10 a.m. at the Soldotna Creek Park. LeeShore Center board to meet Early registration is encouraged and is available at: hospicecenThe LeeShore Center will be holding its monthly board meet- tralpenn.com. There will be .5K Dash and a 1.6K Race and Root ing at The LeeShore Center on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. The Beer as our treat! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Put on a smile and run a mile or do a dash in meeting is open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. For further a flash!â&#x20AC;? Bring the whole family and join us. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to information call 283-9479. run, come along as a cheerleader! Contact Lee at 262-0453 for questions or additional information.

The Kenai Peninsula Food to host gala

The Soup Supper Gala will be held at the Soldotna Sports and Recreation Center on Sept. 15. Doors open at 5 p.m. Buy-It-Now from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Buy a raffle ticket for your chance to win two Alaska Airlines tickets. There will be games, music, locally made soups, craft beers, wine, live and silent auction items and so much more!

KPC College Council seeks member Kenai Peninsula College is seeking an interested community member to fill a Seward-area at-large seat on its College Council. The borough-wide council serves as an advisory board to the college director and advocates for the interests of the college to the community and legislature; members serve 3-year terms. Sewardarea residents interested in serving should submit a letter of interest and resume by Aug. 28 to: College Director, Kenai Peninsula College, 156 College Rd., Soldotna AK 99669. Interested individuals with questions can call 262-0318.

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge activities The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center is open every day from 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. on Ski Hill Road near Soldotna. For more information, call 260-2820. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Daily wildlife movies at the visitors center. 11 a.m., noon and 2 p.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Refuge film, 1 p.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Raptor force, 3 p.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Moose: Life of a twig eater â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Aug. 25 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tale of Two Cabins â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Hear stories of life one the Kenai and explore two renovated log cabins from the 1920s and 1940s. Easy, short walk on a gravel path. 2 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sept. 1â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Cubaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s endemic birdsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Guides speaker Ernesto Reyes. 2 p.m.

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HAVE-Alaska dinner/fundraiser/live music HAVE-Alaska, an Alaska-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the physical and psychological rehabilitation of American Veterans injured in service to our country through outdoor activities and travel, will host a dinner/fundraiser event at the Kenai Elks Lodge on Aug. 25 from 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. All proceeds will go to our 2019 Veteran events. All money is used in Alaska for Alaska events. Tickets are $30.

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Tariffs have real impacts on agriculture It’s a good thing U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

Sonny Perdue has two ears. On the subject of Donald Trump’s reckless and destructive trade war, Perdue has already gotten one earful and today we hope he gets another. This trade war is hurting farmers across America, but it’s especially painful in Stanislaus, Merced and south San Joaquin counties. After Trump threatened tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum, China retaliated by targeting almonds, wine, walnuts and more products grown here. China imports $2 billion in ag products from California alone — mostly fruit, nuts and wine. That’s what we grow. Farmers were urged to sit tight as the master deal-maker worked his magic. Since then, more tariffs and more retaliation. It’s so bad that Trump is now asking for a $12 billion to help farmers who grow corn, cotton, pork and soybeans. We grow those things, too, but they’re insignificant compared to our fruits, nuts, vegetables and wines. And those who grow our most important products are eligible only for federal government purchases of surplus produce. The California Farm Bureau Federation wants equal treatment. So do some California Republicans in Congress, who sent a July 31 letter to Perdue. Chinese tariffs, they wrote, are “making fruits, vegetables and tree nuts in our districts significantly more expensive than their competitors” and “threatening the economic livelihood of our businesses and communities.” Valley Republicans Jeff Denham, Devin Nunes and David Valadao signed it; Democrats Jim Costa, Ami Bera and four others did, too. Tuesday, Denham and Costa can explain it in person as Perdue spends the day in Modesto and Oakdale. (Times and locations are provided if you RSVP.) Are politics involved? Of course, and they should be. Republicans want to be seen as doing something for farmers. But it’s tough when the problem is your guy in the White House. Trump’s immigration policies have pulled workers out of fields and intimidated others from coming north to work while his bungling of trade policies have made our products more expensive and increased the costs of farm machinery. Republicans insist they’re well positioned to influence the president. But Trump ignored them when he curtailed protections under the DREAM Act, then worked against their efforts to fix it. He’s ignored their entreaties to help poor constituents he was depriving of health insurance. Now he’s ignoring their pleas on trade. He’s even calling them names for complaining. Trump tweeted last week that China “is spending a fortune on ads and P.R. trying to convince and scare our politicians to fight me.” Then he added, “Tariffs will make our country much richer than it is today. Only fools would disagree.” So California Republicans are “fools”? Demand for California almonds has plummeted 47 percent, according to Beacon Economics. California wine exports fell 15 percent and cherries 36 percent. China is the sixth-largest importer of California walnuts at $106 million, and they’re getting a 20 percent tariff along with pistachios. Wednesday, China announced additional tariffs on $16 billion on U.S. goods, including on Chinese-made Apple products (which isn’t ag, but it is important here). Growing more angry, Trump has threatened even higher tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. He’ll show ‘em. But he’s not. China’s trade surplus with the U.S. dipped to $28.09 billion in July from a record $28.97 billion in June. Trump’s impetuous, intemperate tweets have real consequences in our Valley. Secretary Perdue should hear all about them. —The Modesto Bee, Aug. 13, 2018

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The parade hit

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By GARRY TRUDEAU

President Donald Trump was bitterly disappointed that he was forced to cancel his ego trip down Washington, D.C., streets. The parade of U.S. military units was to be his biggest display yet of people marching in lockstep, bigger even than any gathering of Republicans. He really wanted to stand on a reviewing stand as the troops and hardware did their thing below — just like they do for Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and the others he wants to emulate — but the disclosed cost of $92 million for this Defense Department dog and pony show is indefensible. So, of course, he did what all spoiled children do when they don’t get their way: He threw a tantrum — a Twitter tantrum. “The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it,” he pecked on his dumbphone. “When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that I cancelled it. Never let someone hold you up!” The D.C. mayor jumped all over this with a tweet of her own: “Yup, I’m Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington D.C., the local politician who finally got thru to the reality star in the White House with the realities ($21.6M) of parades/events/demonstrations in Trump America (sad)” Did I mention that Mayor Bowser is running for re-election? Or that Donald

Trump is wildly unpopular in the District of Columbia? According to her people, $21.6 million would be the local share of the $92 million total cost. Inflated or not, the expenditure would be a chunk of Bob Franken money that could go to more useful purposes, like paying for all of the POTUS golf trips or maintenance on the Trump emolument properties. Still, who knows what he’ll do if he doesn’t get his parade. It’s up to us, his subjects, to provide one. With the military out of the picture, we need to be creative. President Trump wants a parade? Let’s give him a parade. How about a marching band of all those veterans of the spy game who are raising such a ruckus over the president spitefully taking away national security clearances of those who dared cross him. They bitterly complain that he’s acting like a petty tyrant, which is hardly profound, in that only a petty tyrant would even want such a spectacle in the first place. Nevertheless, they would comprise a really big unit. One problem, though: These all are intelligence operatives who would be stepping out, but they’d reflexively keep their route secret.

Notably absent would be Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating the Russia connection. He’s too busy raining on Trump’s parade. Don’t look for some of our other luminaries. Omarosa will be a no-show, for sure. She’ll be there, but secretly taping conversations. She obviously took pointers from Michael Cohen, who is currently sharing his recordings as he spills his guts to all those involved in probing Donald Trump and the rest who have ever been around him and gotten indelibly stained. I wouldn’t look for Stormy Daniels either, not even on a float. It’s a shame that she didn’t record her alleged encounter with Trump. We’ll just have to take her word that he was quite boring in bed. We can only guess how much that bothers him, probably as much as the ridicule for his small hands. The problem really is that we have a small person who has got huge toys, like an armed force that numbers more than 2 million. He’s the commander in chief, so they have to humor him. This time, the cost for his folly was so prohibitive that he did something he almost never does: He listened to his advisers, who gently suggested to him that paying $92 million would be bad for his image. Nothing is more important to him than his image, not even a parade.

States split in taking action to combat sexual misconduct By DAVID A. LIEB and MEGHAN HOYER Associated Press

As the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct began snaring politicians, state legislatures across the country vowed to re-examine their policies to prevent harassment and beef up investigations into complaints of sexual wrongdoing. About half of all state legislative chambers have followed through with at least some sort of change to their sexual harassment policies, most often by boosting their own training, according to a 50-state analysis by The Associated Press. But the others have done nothing this year, even as sexual misconduct allegations against lawmakers have been mounting. The mixed response highlights both the political pressure to act and the institutional resistance to do so that exists in many state legislatures, where women now serve in record numbers yet remain outnumbered 3-to-1 by men. “In the wake of Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement that swept across different industries, we had to act,” said Democratic Assemblywoman Nily Rozic of New York, which mandated more robust sexual harassment policies for government agencies and private employers. But “I think we have a long ways to go in addressing sexual harassment in legislatures across the country,” she said. Since the start of 2017, at least 30 state lawmakers have resigned or been kicked out of office following allegations of sexual misconduct, according to an AP tally. The most recent was Maine Rep. Dillon Bates, a Democrat who quit this past week while denying claims of inappropriate relationships with students. An additional 25 lawmakers have faced repercussions such as the loss of party or committee leadership positions since last year. Numerous others have had allegations brought against them. Most of those cases came to light since October, when media reports about sexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein, the Hollywood mogul now facing sexual assault charges in New York, led to a national movement of people going public with claims that they also had been sexually harassed or abused, sometimes years ago. Rhode Island Rep. Teresa Tanzi was among the first to come forward, asserting that a high-ranking legislator whom she did not identify had told her that sexual favors would help her bills go further. The disclosure prompted the House to offer sexual harassment training and to place Tanzi, a Democrat, in charge of a task force to recommend changes to state law. But the experience ultimately left Tanzi frustrated. With this year’s session nearing its end, the panel’s work was put into a package of bills that would have barred confidentiality agreements in civil rights violations, extended employee protections to interns and volunteers, and required employers to conduct sexual harassment training. None of the bills passed. “It really to me felt as though it were just a dog-and-pony show,” Tanzi said. When the AP surveyed state legislatures in early January, about three-quarters of the House and Senate chambers nationwide indicated they were considering or had recently made changes to their sexual harassment policies. As of August, the AP’s follow-up survey found that about half of the 99 state legislative chambers actually had made changes. More than two dozen that previously indicated they were

AP investigation reviewing policies have yet to make any substantive changes, though some are still considering it. The AP’s analysis also found: — The most common response among lawmakers has been to boost their own training about sexual harassment. About half the legislative chambers have done so, typically by making it mandatory or providing it more frequently. But legislative chambers in one-fifth of the states still do not require lawmakers to participate in sexual harassment training. — Legislative chambers in about a halfdozen states have taken action to increase the public disclosure of sexual harassment complaints against lawmakers and to ban the use of public money in sexual harassment settlements. — Legislatures in about one-fifth of the states added provisions since the #MeToo movement allowing for the external investigation of complaints, which some experts say is an important way of avoiding conflicts of interest and encouraging the targets of harassment to come forward. Even so, fewer than half the legislative chambers nationwide now allow for the external review of complaints. — Only a few legislatures passed laws that apply beyond state government. States strengthening sexual harassment protections for private-sector employees included Arizona, Maryland, New York, Tennessee, Vermont and Washington. “If all you ever do is concentrate on the statehouse ... maybe you’re protecting a few hundred people,” said Democratic Rep. Sarah Copeland-Hanzas, who sponsored the Vermont law applying to all employers. “But what about the rest of your workforce? What about all of the restaurants where the waitress doesn’t want to have to go into the back storeroom because she knows that the prep cook is looking for an opportunity to proposition her?” California has been among the states with the most complaints against lawmakers and the greatest debate over sexual harassment policies. After about 150 women signed a public letter last October calling out “pervasive” harassment at the Capitol, lawmakers adopted new whistleblower protections for legislative employees who report harassment and began publicly disclosing substantiated complaints against lawmakers and high-level staff members. A new investigative process, which is expected to be in place in early 2019, will

create a special office to handle sexual misconduct complaints. Its fact-finding then will be turned over to a group of outside experts to determine whether complaints can be substantiated and to recommend discipline. Adama Iwu, a lobbyist behind the letter that sparked the Legislature’s soulsearching, called the plan “bold” because it largely takes the process of evaluating complaints out of legislators’ hands. The Legislature’s leadership, though, will still have the ultimate say on discipline. Until the new process is in place, people who brought complaints in the wake of #MeToo are still going through an old process that has prompted concerns. Earlier this summer, for example, legislative leaders reopened an investigation into Democratic Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia after her accuser claimed an initial review that failed to substantiate a groping complaint was unfair and incomplete. California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon called the new policies the year’s “biggest accomplishment,” but acknowledged “there has been a pall over the Capitol.” “It’s one thing to change policies and procedures. That’s good and that’s a start,” he said recently at the Sacramento Press Club. “But ultimately nothing changes until the culture changes. That cultural change takes a while.” In some cases, the very politicians who were supposed to be addressing sexual harassment have been accused of misconduct. Garcia had been the head of the California Legislative Women’s Caucus and a leading figure in the state’s anti-sexual harassment movement before she was accused of it herself. Illinois Rep. Nick Sauer had been a member of the House Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Task Force until an exgirlfriend claimed he had posted nude photos of her on a fake Instagram account set up under her name. Sauer, a Republican, resigned from office earlier this month. Rep. Sara Wojcicki Jimenez, the ranking Republican on the Illinois task force, called the situation “shocking and disappointing” but also an indication that allegations are being taken seriously. “You’re thinking, ‘Well gosh, we’re trying to do all this good work for reform and new things keep popping up each month,’” Jimenez said. But “because the awareness is raised, people feel more comfortable coming forward. Hopefully then the next step will be that it starts to decline.”

Peninsula Clarion | Wednesday, August 22, 2018 | A5

Nation Paul Manafort guilty of 8 charges

People stock up on water, ramen as hurricane menaces Hawaii

By MATTHEW BARAKAT, CHAD DAY and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Paul Manafort, the longtime political operative who for months led Donald Trump’s successful presidential campaign, was found guilty of eight financial crimes Tuesday in the first trial victory of the special counsel investigation into the president’s associates. A judge declared a mistrial on 10 other counts the jury could not agree on. The verdict was part of a stunning one-two punch of bad news for the White House, coming as the president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was pleading guilty in New York to campaign finance charges arising from hush money payments made to two women who say they had sexual relationships with Trump. The jury returned the decision after deliberating four days on tax and bank fraud charges against Manafort, who led Trump’s election effort during a crucial stretch of 2016, including as he clinched the Republican nomination and during the party’s convention. Manafort, who appeared jovial earlier in the day amid signs the jury was struggling in its deliberations, focused intently on the jury as the clerk read off the charges. He stared down blankly at the defense table, then looked up, expressionless, as the judge finished thanking the jury. “Mr. Manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts,” said defense

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This courtroom sketch shows Paul Manafort listening to U.S. District court Judge T.S. Ellis III at federal court in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

lawyer Kevin Downing. He said Manafort was evaluating all his options. The jury found Manafort guilty of five counts of filing false tax returns on tens of millions of dollars in Ukrainian political consulting income. He was also convicted of failing to report foreign bank accounts in 2012 and of two bank fraud charges that accused him of lying to obtain millions of dollars in loans after his consulting income dried up. The jury couldn’t reach a verdict on three other foreign bank account charges, and the remaining bank fraud and conspiracy counts. The outcome, though not the across-the-board guilty verdicts prosecutors sought, almost cer-

tainly guarantees years of prison for Manafort. It also appears to vindicate the ability of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team to secure convictions from a jury of average citizens despite months of partisan attacks, including from Trump, on the investigation’s integrity. The verdict also raised immediate questions of whether the president would seek to pardon Manafort, the lone American charged by Mueller to opt for trial instead of cooperate. The president has not revealed his thinking but spoke sympathetically throughout the trial of his onetime aide, at one point suggesting he had been treated worse than gangster Al Capone. The president Tuesday called the outcome a “disgrace” and

said the case “has nothing to do with Russia collusion.” The trial did not resolve the central question behind Mueller’s investigation — whether Trump associates coordinated with Russia to influence the election. Still, there were occasional references to Manafort’s work on the campaign, including emails showing him lobbying Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner on behalf of a banker who approved $16 million in loans because he wanted a job in the Trump administration. Manafort urged Kushner to consider the banker, Stephen Calk, for Secretary of the Army. Though Kushner responded to Manafort’s email by saying, “On it!” Calk ultimately did not get an administration post.

HONOLULU — Hawaii residents rushed to grocery stores Tuesday to stock up on bottled water, ramen and toilet paper as they faced the threat of heavy rain, flash flooding and high surf from a powerful and erratic hurricane expected to churn close to the islands or directly over them. The National Weather Service issued a hurricane watch for Hawaii, Maui and other smaller islands, meaning tropical storm-force winds, excessive rain and large swells could arrive starting Wednesday. It’s possible Oahu and Kauai may later be included in an advisory for the hurricane packing potential maximum sustained winds of 155 mph. Hurricane Lane “is forecast to move dangerously close to the main Hawaiian islands as a hurricane later this week, potentially bringing damaging winds and life-threatening flash flooding from heavy rainfall,” the weather service’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center warned as it got closer to the state. The storm had been moving west but is expected to turn northwest toward the state Wednesday. There’s some uncertainty to Lane’s path — whether it moves north or south, meteorologist Gavin Shigesato said. “It is much too early to confidently determine which, if any, of the main Hawaiian islands will be directly impacted by Lane,” the weather service said. But the hurricane center said the storm will move very close to or over the islands from Thursday through Saturday. Even if the center of Lane doesn’t make landfall, the islands could be walloped with rain and wind. The east side of the Big Island has taken the brunt from previous storms and is still reeling after lava from an erupting volcano wiped out entire neighborhoods. But early indications showed that the south end of the island up to the western side would be taking the brunt of the storm. “At this time, it looks like maybe Puna will be spared,” county Managing Director Wil Okabe said of the beleaguered, rural district. “But you never know.” Officials were urging residents across the islands to prepare. “People are getting ready, which is exactly what we want,” Maui County spokesman Rod Antone said. “I know people are taking trips to Costco, buying ramen, rice, the usual. Toilet paper.” He reminded people to have emergency kits ready and to “withdraw cash. Remember, if the power goes out, ATMs aren’t going to be working.” —The Associated Press

US Rep Duncan Hunter, wife indicted on corruption charges By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and JULIE WATSON Associated Press

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife were charged Tuesday with using more than $250,000 in campaign funds to finance family trips to Italy and Hawaii, golf outings, school tuition, theater tickets — even fast food purchases — and attempting to disguise the illegal spending in federal records, prosecutors said. A 48-page federal indictment depicts the couple as binge spenders who over eight years pocketed a steady stream of dollars intended for campaign purposes, while their household budget was awash in

red ink. Prosecutors said the couple tried to conceal the spending, which ranged from the banal to lavish, by falsifying records. In March 2015, Hunter told his wife he wanted to buy “Hawaii shorts” but ran out of money, the indictment said. She told him he should buy them at a golf pro shop so they could later describe the purchase as “some (golf) balls for the wounded warriors,” according to court documents. “The Hunters spent substantially more than they earned,” the indictment said. “They overdrew their bank account more than 1,100 times in a 7-year period resulting in approximately $37,761 in ‘overdraft’ and ‘insufficient funds’

bank fees.” Asked for comment, a spokesman for Hunter sent an Aug. 6 letter from Hunter’s attorney, Gregory A. Vega, to U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein asking him to postpone the indictment. Vega contended that there was a “rush to indict.” There was “politically motivated” pressure to wrap up the investigation in order to tarnish Hunter before the general election after he handily won a June primary, Vega contended. Hunter was among the earliest Republican members of Congress to endorse President Donald Trump and Vega’s letter suggested his outspoken support made him a target for what he described as politically

States aim to stop release of 3D-printed gun plans By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press

SEATTLE — A federal judge in Seattle hearing arguments over a settlement that allows a Texas company to post online plans for printing 3D guns said Tuesday the overall issue of such untraceable plastic weapons should be decided by the president or Congress. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik said he’ll rule by Monday on the legal issues involving the settlement between the company and the Trump administration. He added, however, that “a solution to the great-

er problem is so much better suited to the other two branches of government.” Nineteen states and the District of Columbia sued the federal government, alleging it reached a “covert” settlement with the company, Defense Distributed, without notifying Congress or the Department of Defense about changes it made to an export act that prohibited 3D gun plans from being posted online. The Austin-based company is owned by Cody Wilson, a self-described “crypto-anarchist” who opposes restrictions on gun ownership.

Lasnik granted a restraining order on July 31 that blocked the immediate release of the plans online. The states want him to make it permanent. Washington state Assistant Attorney General Jeff Rupert argued that the government’s decision to allow the posting threatens public safety and should be reversed. Any felon or terrorist with a laptop and a 3D printer could start making firearms that can’t be seen by a metal detector, leaving airports, courthouses, jails and many government buildings and schools — vulnerable, he said.

biased prosecutors. Hunter, 41, the son of a longtime congressman, represents the strongly Republican 50th Congressional District in San Diego and Riverside counties. He faces the prospect of campaigning under the shadow of a federal indictment in a year when Democrats have targeted several Republican-held House seats across the state. University of California, San Diego political scientist Thad Kousser said Hunter would be on safe ground if the race centered on the Trump agenda. Now, the indictment “makes it a race about (Hunter), about corruption and in some ways ties him to Donald Trump’s biggest vulnerabilities,” Kousser said, referring to the guilty plea Tues-

day of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, on campaign-finance violations and other charges, on the same day Trump former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted of eight financial crimes. Another early Trump supporter, Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Collins of New York, ended his re-election bid this month, days after his indictment on insider trading charges. Hunter’s Democratic opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, stopped short of calling on the congressman to resign. “I think justice should run its course,” he said. Campa-Najjar said Hunter was “in it for his own interests” and that it is time to “get rid of the corruption and greed that

has held Washington captive for too long.” The California secretary of state’s office says there is no process in the elections code for Hunter to remove his name from the ballot, and there can be no write-in candidates for the November election. In a statement, House Speaker Paul Ryan called the charges “deeply serious” and said Hunter will be removed from his committee assignments, pending resolution of the case. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Ryan should call on Hunter to resign. In a statement, California Republican Party Chairman Jim Brulte said “individuals are presumed innocent” until a jury convicts them.

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US deports ex-Nazi guard, 95, to Germany By MICHAEL R. SISAK, DAVID RISING and RANDY HERSCHAFT Associated Press

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BERLIN — A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who lived quietly in New York City for decades was carried out of his home on a stretcher by federal agents and flown to Germany early Tuesday in what could prove to be the last U.S. deportation of a World War II-era war-crimes suspect. Jakiw Palij’s expulsion, at President Donald Trump’s urging, came 25 years after investigators first accused Palij of lying about his wartime past to get into the U.S. But it was largely symbolic because officials in Germany have repeatedly said there is insufficient evidence to prosecute him. Trump “made it very clear” he wanted Palij out of the country, and a new German government that took office in March brought “new energy” to expediting the matter, U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell said. “He’s gone. He’s back in Germany,” Trump said at a campaign rally in West Virginia Tuesday night as he celebrated his role in the deportation. Eli Rosenbaum, the former head of the U.S. office investigating accused Nazi war criminals, said Palij’s removal “is a landmark victory in the U.S. government’s decades-long quest to

In this Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, frame from video, Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, is carried on a stretcher from his home in the Queens borough of New York. Palij, the last Nazi war crimes suspect facing deportation from the U.S. was taken from his home and spirited early Tuesday morning to Germany, the White House said. (ABC via AP)

achieve a measure of justice and accountability on behalf of the victims of Nazi inhumanity.” Palij lived quietly in the U.S. for years, as a draftsman and then as a retiree, until nearly three decades ago when investigators found his name on an old Nazi roster and a fellow former guard spilled the secret that he was “living somewhere in America.” Palij, an ethnic Ukrainian born in a part of Poland that is now Ukraine, said on his 1957 naturalization petition that he had Ukrainian citizenship. When their in-

vestigators showed up at his door in 1993, he said: “I would never have received my visa if I told the truth. Everyone lied.” A judge stripped Palij’s U.S. citizenship in 2003 for “participation in acts against Jewish civilians” while he was an armed guard at the Trawniki camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and he was ordered deported a year later. But because Germany, Poland, Ukraine and other countries refused to take him, he continued living in limbo in the two-story, red brick home in Queens he

shared with his late wife, Maria. His continued presence there outraged the Jewish community, attracting frequent protests over the years that featured such chants as, “Your neighbor is a Nazi!” According to the Justice Department, Palij served at Trawniki in 1943, the same year 6,000 prisoners in the camps and tens of thousands of other prisoners held in occupied Poland were rounded up and slaughtered. Palij has acknowledged serving in Trawniki but denied any involvement in war crimes.

Bosnia struggles to cope with new migrants By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press

BIHAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Not so long ago, people in Bosnia were sarcastically joking that their war-scarred country is in such a bad shape that not even the migrants fleeing violence and poverty in the Mideast and Africa were willing to pass through it. That’s not the case anymore. As previous migration routes to Western Europe from the Balkans have closed off over the past year, the trail has shifted toward Bosnia. Now the impoverished nation is trying secure proper shelters for at least 4,000 people expected to be stranded in its territory throughout the coming winter. Peter Van der Auweraert of the International Organization for Migration says it’s a race against time. “We have to accelerate the process, because the danger is that when the first snow falls . we will have people sleeping outside in conditions that even in summer were already not acceptable,” he said. Since the beginning of the year, close to 11,000 migrants and refugees have entered Bosnia, which has never truly recovered from its brutal 199295 war, which left more than 100,000 dead and forced more than half the population to flee before a peace deal was brokered. That compares to just 755 migrant arrivals for all of 2017.

Bosnian authorities have increased border controls along its northeastern border with Serbia, but between 400 and 500 migrants are still entering Bosnia weekly. Most end up living in horrible conditions in the northwestern Krajina region on the border with European Union member Croatia, which shares a 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) border with Bosnia. Thousands have been staying in an abandoned dormitory, a windowless, roofless concrete building on the edge of Bihac, and in tents in the woodlands surrounding it. In the nearby cities of Velika Kladusa and Cazin, smaller groups of migrants have set up squalid makeshift camps where they spend days curled up on the ground, cooking simple meals over open fires and watching their children play in the dirt. Local Red Cross volunteers have been providing food for migrants and refugees in Bihac since April. At first, they fed just a few hundred people, relying on local donations. But since July, they have been serving two meals a day to 1,500 migrants who are also receiving basic health care from local medical workers. Although the U.N. refugee agency and the IOM have now joined the effort, local volunteers are desperate for more help. “We are reaching the end of our rope, because this has been going on for four months

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already. Only God knows what awaits us in the future,” said Abdulah Budimlic, head of the Red Cross organization in Bihac. While around 60 percent of those who entered Bosnia this year have managed to cross into Croatia, more and more migrants in Bihac and Velika Kladusa have accused Croatian police of beating them, confiscating their meager belongings and pushing them back into Bosnia. Croatian police have repeatedly denied those claims. “They take your mobile phones, your power pack. They destroy these and say ‘Don’t come back,’” said Abdul Hai Baloch from Pakistan’s volatile Balochistan province. Amjad Dakkakn, a 25-yearold from Syria, echoed the sentiment, swinging his fists to illustrate how he was treated by Croatian border guards, calling

them thieves for smashing his phone and taking his money. “They are hitting us as they hit an animal,” claimed AbuBakar Khan, a 20-year-old from Pakistan who has made several unsuccessful attempts to cross the border since arriving in Bihac about a month ago. Having lived through their country’s brutal 1990s war, Bosnians sympathize more than most with those fleeing their homes in search of a better, safer life. But they are growing more vocal in their criticism of the national government, accusing officials of forcing towns and villages to deal with the migrants’ many needs on their own. “In less than a month, the weather will change. It will get cold,” said Bihac resident Halid Dedic. “I fear that the local people will be left alone to face the migrants.”

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — It was a beautiful morning, according to New Zealand’s minister for women, so after 42 weeks of pregnancy she decided to hop on her electric bicycle and ride to the hospital to give birth to her first child. Julie Anne Genter this week posted a picture of herself outside the Auckland City Hospital holding her bike, saying she was ready to be induced and “finally have this baby.” “This is it, wish us luck!” she wrote, adding that “My partner and I cycled because there wasn’t enough room in the car for the support crew ... but it also put me in the best possible mood!” Genter announced that she’d given birth Tuesday evening to a healthy boy weighing nearly 4.3 kilograms (9.5 pounds). “We waited a very long time for labor to start, but when it did it was short and sharp,” she wrote on Facebook. She was congratulated on Twitter by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who gave birth to a daughter, Neve, two months ago. “So pleased to hear of the safe arrival of the newest addition to the parliamentary play group,” Ardern wrote. “Hope you enjoy those very special first few days.” Genter’s ride to the hospital made news around the world, and her Instagram photo was noticed by actress Kristen Bell, who wrote on Twitter “what a babe.” Genter, 38, wrote that the ride with partner Peter Nunns was “mostly downhill” and joked that she “probably should have cycled more in the last few weeks,” in order to start her labor earlier. Ardern, 38, was just the second elected world leader in modern times to give birth while holding office, after late Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto gave birth to daughter Bakhtawar in 1990.

US, UK, France vow to act against new Syria chemical attack UNITED NATIONS — The United States, Britain and France vowed on the fifth anniversary of a chemical weapons attack that they blame on the Syrian government to take action as they have in the past against any further attacks by President Bashar Assad’s regime. A joint statement issued late Tuesday called the Aug. 21, 2012 sarin nerve gas attack that killed hundreds of people in the Ghouta suburb of Damascus “horrific.” The use of sarin led to a U.S.-Russian agreement to eliminate Assad’s chemical weapons, which averted U.S. military strikes against Syria. Since then, the three Western powers have accused Syria of resorting to the use of chemical weapons during military offensives in Khan Sheikhoun, Ltamenah, Saraqeb and Douma. Following the suspected chemical attack in Douma in April, the U.S., U.K., and France launched punitive military strikes in Syria. —The Associated Press

Today in History Today is Wednesday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2018. There are 131 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 22, 1972, President Richard Nixon was nominated for a second term of office by the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. On this date: In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. In 1851, the schooner America outraced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the America’s Cup. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln responded to Horace Greeley’s call for more drastic steps to abolish slavery; Lincoln replied that his priority was saving the Union, but he also repeated his personal wish “that all men everywhere could be free.” In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese control until the end of World War II. In 1932, the British Broadcasting Corp. conducted its first experimental television broadcast, using a 30-line mechanical system. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon were nominated for second terms in office by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. In 1972, John Wojtowicz (WAHT’-uh-witz) and Salvatore Naturile took seven employees hostage at a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Brooklyn, New York, during a botched robbery; the siege, which ended with Wojtowicz’s arrest and Naturile’s killing by the FBI, inspired the 1975 movie “Dog Day Afternoon.” In 1978, President Jomo Kenyatta, a leading figure in Kenya’s struggle for independence, died; Vice President Daniel arap Moi was sworn in as acting president. In 1985, 55 people died when fire broke out aboard a British Airtours charter jet on a runway at Manchester Airport in England. In 1986, Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit. The Rob Reiner coming-of-age film “Stand By Me” was put into wide release by Columbia Pictures. In 1989, Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, California. (Gunman Tyrone Robinson was later sentenced to 32 years to life in prison.) In 1992, on the second day of the Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho, an FBI sharpshooter killed Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver (the sharpshooter later said he was targeting the couple’s friend Kevin Harris, and didn’t see Vicki Weaver). Ten years ago: Russia said it had pulled back forces from Georgia in accordance with an EU-brokered cease-fire agreement. Usain (yoo-SAYN’) Bolt helped Jamaica win the 400-meter relay final in 37.10 seconds for his third gold medal and third world record of the Beijing Olympics. Bryan Clay won the decathlon. Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers beat Brazil in the men’s beach volleyball championship game. Five years ago: Egypt’s ousted leader Hosni Mubarak was released from prison and transported to a military hospital in a Cairo suburb to be held under house arrest. A day after being sentenced to up to 35 years in prison for leaking secrets, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, in a statement to NBC’s “Today” show, announced he intended to live as a woman named Chelsea and undergo hormone treatment. A mysterious glitch halted trading on the Nasdaq for three hours. One year ago: Protesters and police clashed outside a convention center in Phoenix where President Donald Trump had just wrapped up his first political rally since the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia; police fired pepper spray at crowds after someone apparently lobbed rocks and bottles at officers. A military commander reported that Iraqi troops had reached the first urban areas of the northern town of Tal Afar on the third day of an operation to retake it from the Islamic State group. Today’s Birthdays: Broadcast journalist Morton Dean is 83. Author Annie Proulx (proo) is 83. Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski is 79. Actress Valerie Harper is 79. Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells is 77. Writer-producer David Chase is 73. CBS newsman Steve Kroft is 73. Actress Cindy Williams is 71. Pop musician David Marks is 70. International Swimming Hall of Famer Diana Nyad is 69. Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Molitor is 62. Rock musician Vernon Reid is 60. Country singer Ricky Lynn Gregg is 59. Country singer Collin Raye is 58. Actress Regina Taylor is 58. Rock singer Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears) is 57. Rock musician Debbi Peterson (The Bangles) is 57. Rock musician Gary Lee Conner (Screaming Trees) is 56. Singer Tori Amos is 55. Country singer Mila Mason is 55. Rhythm-and-blues musician James DeBarge is 55. International Tennis Hall of Famer Mats Wilander is 54. Actress Brooke Dillman is 52. Rapper GZA (JIHZ’-ah)/The Genius is 52. Actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (ah-dayWAH’-lay ah-kih-NOY’-yay ah-BAH’-jay) is 51. Actor Ty Burrell is 51. Celebrity chef Giada DeLaurentiis is 48. Actress Melinda Page Hamilton is 47. Actor Rick Yune is 47. Rock musician Paul Doucette (Matchbox Twenty) is 46. Rap-reggae singer Beenie Man is 45. Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 45. Comedian-actress Kristen Wiig is 45. Actress Jenna Leigh Green is 44. Rock musician Bo Koster is 44. Rock musician Dean Back (Theory of a Deadman) is 43. Talk show host James Corden is 40. Rock musician Jeff Stinco (Simple Plan) is 40. Actor Brandon Adams is 39. Actress Aya Sumika is 38. Actor Ari Stidham is 26. Thought for Today: “Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.” -- Leon Blum, French statesman (1872-1950).

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Cubs land Nationals slugger Murphy in trade By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer

DETROIT — The Chicago Cubs know all too well what Daniel Murphy can do at the plate. So they are very much looking forward to playing alongside him for a change. The Cubs bolstered their struggling lineup by acquiring Murphy in a trade with the Washington Nationals on Tuesday. The 33-year-old Murphy has a .413 career batting average at Wrigley Field, according to STATS. He was the NL Championship Series MVP when the Mets swept the Cubs in 2015, hitting .529 with four homers and six RBIs. “It’s going to be more fun to watch him hit,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said before Tuesday’s 2-1 loss at Detroit. “He kind of devastated us in 2015.” The Cubs also announced that Yu Darvish will miss the rest of the season because of a stress reaction in his right elbow. Darvish left his rehab start for Class A South Bend on Sunday after

just one inning. “Hopefully it turns out well to get him back next year from Day 1,” Maddon said. “It’s been a very difficult year, obviously, for him to have to endure the physical and maybe some of the emotional, mental pain.” Darvish, who turned 32 on Thursday, signed a $126 million, six-year contract with Chicago in February. But he made just eight starts in his first year with the Cubs, going 1-3 with a 4.95 ERA. The deal for Murphy comes at an opportune time for NL Central-leading Chicago, which has scored one run in five straight games on five home runs. Third baseman Kris Bryant is on the disabled list with an inflamed left shoulder, and shortstop Addison Russell was scratched from Tuesday’s loss because of right shoulder inflammation. “Having Daniel in the field with the rest of the guys will be a big help,” Maddon said. The Cubs got Murphy for Class A infielder Andruw Monasterio and a player to be named or cash, grabbing the attention of the team as it prepared

for the matchup with Detroit. “This is obviously something that makes us better so they’re all jacked up,” Maddon said. “I walked in the food room, grabbing some salad, and (Ben) Zobrist is looking at the TV and he said, ‘We got Daniel Murphy!’ He was smiling. “I thought he was messing with me. He didn’t know until he saw it. That was legitimate expression of joy, knowing we got Daniel Murphy. I thought that was kind of cool.” Murphy missed the start of the year after undergoing right knee surgery on Oct. 20. He is eligible for free agency after this season. The three-time All-Star is hitting .300 with six homers and 29 RBIs in 56 games. “It’s really bittersweet,” he said in Washington before joining his new team. “I sat at this podium probably two and a half years ago. The Washington Nationals were the only offer I had. They took a chance on me three years ago and I feel very disappointed in myself that it kind of came to this point.” Murphy spent the first seven seasons of his 10-year career with the Mets. He

In this July 15, 2018, file photo, Washington Nationals’ Daniel Murphy hits a two-run single during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets at Citi Field in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

is a .299 career hitter with 116 homers, 327 doubles and 628 RBIs. “One of the best teammates I’ve ever played with,” Nationals star Bryce Harper said.

Murphy has been particularly good since the All-Star break, batting .340 in his last 28 games. He was surprised to be claimed, figuring he would end up staying in Washington.

Former NFL player Incognito charged

Cleveland Indians’ Yan Gomes, right, scores behind Boston Red Sox’s Sandy Leon on a single by Michael Brantley during the sixth inning of a baseball game in Boston, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Red hot Indians topple Sox Cleveland defense, pitching shine through again vs. Boston BOSTON (AP) — Center fielder Greg Allen made two superb catches to help fellow rookie Shane Bieber hold down Boston, and the Cleveland Indians beat the Red Sox 6-3 Tuesday night in a matchup of AL division leaders. Melky Cabrera homered for the second straight game and Yan Gomes also connected for Cleveland. The Indians have won nine of 10, including the first two of the four-game series at Fenway Park. Boston, with the best record in the majors, has lost three in a row for just the second time this season. Allen doubled, singled and drove in a run. But he made the biggest impact with his glove. First, Allen raced back and slammed into the padded wall to take away an extra-base hit from Xander Bogaerts lead-

ing off the fifth inning. Then, with the Red Sox trying to rally in the seventh, Mitch Moreland hit a long drive toward the dirt triangle in deep center. Allen slid to a stop as he caught the ball over his shoulder — it was a sacrifice fly and finished Bieber, but thwarted Boston’s momentum. Bieber (7-2) took a shutout in the seventh, allowing three runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings. YANKEES 2, MARLINS 1, 12 INNINGS MIAMI (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton had two hits in his homecoming but closer Aroldis Chapman left the game accompanied by a trainer as New York beat Miami in 12 innings. After Yankees backup catcher Kyle Hi-

gashioka raced home on a sacrifice fly in the 12th, Chapman came on trying for his 32nd save, but he departed with none out when his troublesome knee flared up. Stanton, playing in Miami for the first time since he was traded after eight seasons with the Marlins, singled in the first and missed a homer by a few feet when he doubled off the left field wall in the fifth.

BRAVES 6, PIRATES 1 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dansby Swanson had two homers and four RBIs, Kevin Gausman breezed through eight innings to lead Atlanta past Pittsburgh. Swanson’s first homer gave the Braves a 2-0 lead in the fifth before he sent another two-run shot into nearly the same spot in the left field bleachers, extending the lead to 5-0 in the seventh. Kurt Suzuki doubled down the left-field line, scoring Ozzie Albies from See MLB, page A9

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Former NFL offensive lineman Richie Incognito bonded out of an Arizona jail Tuesday after being arrested on charges he threatened to shoot employees of a funeral home a day earlier, authorities said. Police in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale said Incognito had been booked on suspicion of misdemeanor charges of threats and disorderly conduct. Incognito, 35, posted a $20,000 bond. He has an Aug. 27 pretrial conference in Scottsdale Municipal Court. It was unclear Tuesday if Incognito had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf. Police said Incognito was at the Messinger Pinnacle Peak Mortuary on Monday to make arrangements for his father, who died last weekend. “Incognito reportedly was upset with staff and began to damage property inside the business and shout at employees,” said Sgt. Ben Hoster, a police spokesman. “At several points during his contact with staff, Incognito threatened to retrieve guns from his vehicle and return to shoot the employees.” A police report showed officers later executed a search war-

rant on Incognito’s pickup truck and seized two Glocks, three rifles and a silencer for a handgun. The report also said Incognito’s family had told him he wasn’t going to be allowed to attend his father’s funeral and he had been acting erratically. Witnesses at the funeral home told police that Incognito wanted them to cut his dead dad’s head off for research purposes and Incognito punched caskets, threw pamphlets around and took an urn from a shelf and slammed it down on top of a casket. Two mortuary employees took cover in a room downstairs before police arrived and arrested Incognito. Incognito attended a Phoenix-area high school before playing college football at Nebraska and having an 11-year NFL career with St. Louis, Miami and Buffalo. He was released by the Bills three months ago from the reserve/retired list, making him an unrestricted free agent. Incognito was suspended by the Dolphins in 2013 for bullying a teammate and arrested last May in Florida for allegedly throwing a dumbbell and tennis ball at another gym patron.

Smith suspended for poor conduct OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Baltimore Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith has been suspended for four games without pay for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy. The suspension, announced Tuesday, stems from Smith’s behavior toward his ex-girlfriend. The Ravens released a statement that in part read: “The Ravens fully support the NFL’s decision. The NFL found evidence of threatening and emotionally abusive behaviors by Jimmy to-

ward his former girlfriend that showed a pattern of improper conduct. Our player’s behavior was inappropriate and wrong.” The suspension will take effect after the final mandated roster cuts on Sept. 1 and extend through Baltimore’s game at Pittsburgh on Sept. 30. Smith, in a statement issued by the Ravens, said: “I promise that I have already learned much and will continue to learn more from this experience. ... I take full responsibility for my past conduct.”

Alvarez takes KGA tourney amid Peninsula Cup action at Kenai

he Kenai Golf Course continues a very busy tournament schedule. Jeff Helminiak did a great job covering the Peninsula Cup, so we’ll move on to other tournaments. Jeff, thank you for the wonderful job you do with sports and especially golf. On August 18, the August KGA golf tourney was held. The low gross winner was Rene Alvarez with gross score of 83. Second place low gross was a tie between Bill Davis and Charlie K with 84’s. Noel Widmayer came in fourth with a gross of 85. Skip Dove won fifth with an 86. As you can see, this was a very close gross score competition. Chuck Rupenthal won first low net with a net 68, followed by Keith Stasek and Noel Widmayer each with 69’s. Keith won second place in a cardback. Fourth low net was won

by Charlie K with a net 70. Excellent competition! Other notable net scores include Skip Dove (71), Gary Brumley (72) and John White (73). Closest to the pin on #5 was won by John White with a shot of 17’5”. Greg Maturro won the KP on #9 with 20’ 2-1/2”. Hole #10 was won by Chuck Rupenthal with an outstanding shot of 5’8”. Noel Widmayer won the KP on #14 with a shot of 20’8”. There were only two skins won. John White won a skin on hole #13 and Kirk Hyman won the other on #17. Many thanks for Kirk Hyman for running all our KGA events. Kirk has also been the KGA president for the last several years. After this year he will be retiring and will be a hard act to follow. Thanks again, Kirk, for all you have done for the Kenai Golf As-

K enai G olf C ourse R eport G ordon G riffin sociation. Senior League results, August 7: Low Gross was won by Doug Jung with a 39. Bill Davis won low net with a net of 34. There was a tie for fairways hit in regulation between Doug Jung and Keith Stuart at seven each. Fewest putts was won by Keith Stuart with a total of 15 putts. Of the 17 seniors who participated, Keith Stuart won the only skin with a birdie on #5. Congratulations to Keith. Senior League results, August 14: Keith Stuart continued his great play as the low gross winner with a 38.

Noel Widmayer won low net with a net score of 32. Pat Bowen and Bill Davis each had outstanding net scores of 33. On this day Noel Widmayer won one skin with a birdie on hole #8. Bill Davis had four skins on holes 2, 3, 6 and 7. Way to go guys! Senior League, August 21: John Davis won low net with an outstanding net score of 33. Noel Widmayer took low gross with a 43. John Davis won closest to the pin on the second shot on hole #3. He also won closest to the pin on hole #5. On this day John won two skins, and Keith Stuart also won two skins. September Tournaments Sunday, September 9: KGA Tourney Saturday & Sunday, September 15 & 16: Fall Classic (two-person best ball)

Saturday, Sept. 22: River City Cheer Glow Ball Tournament The Kenai Cup Playoffs are now set. Bill Davis and Pat Bowen finished first and second and receive byes into the second round. Fifth seed Todd Eskelin will play #4 seed Kirk Hyman, and #3 seed Michael Houghton will play #6 seed Rene Alvarez on Saturday, August 25, at 11 a.m. The winners of those two matches will play Bill Davis and Pat Bowen. That match will take place on Sunday, August 26, at 10 a.m., and the winners of those matches will play each other immediately following at 3 p.m., also on the 26th. The third- and fourth-place competition will also be played at 3 p.m. on the 26th. The course is pristine and we hope to see you out there playing some late summer golf. As always, Gordon.

A8 | Wednesday, August 22, 2018 | Peninsula Clarion

Hawaii and New York teams ready for Little League series By PATRICK BURNS Associated Press

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Baseball looks like it comes easily to Hawaii’s Aukai Kea. Case in point, Honolulu’s first game of the Little League World Series, when Kea slugged a walk-off home run after tossing 6 1/3 shutout innings. But even he isn’t afraid to admit it — playing on national television and meeting major league players can be quite daunting.

“This whole tournament, this whole journey has been really nerve-wracking because our faces are all over the world and you never know who’s watching,” 12-year-old Kea said. “You don’t want to mess up in front of them,” said his teammate, Ka’Olu Holt. “You want them to like you.” The pressure will be amplified Wednesday night as Hawaii and a team from New York’s Staten Island are set to play in the marquee matchup of the tournament thus far. The winner will head to the championship game in the United States bracket.

The loser could still make that U.S. title game — a semifinal for the whole LLWS — but will have a harder road. While both teams have reached the same destination, and possess the same goal going forward, they’ve taken different approaches when it comes to managing the pressure that Kea and Holt described. Hawaii has embraced the nerves that come with representing their league for the first time in South Williamsport, playing in front of crowds that include tens of thousands of people, and signing autographs

for fans who have ranged from little kids to Alex Rodriguez. “We keep telling the kids to enjoy this,” Honolulu manager Gerald Oda said at a news conference. “I mean, a group of 14 kids from Honolulu, Hawaii, playing in Williamsport, Pennsylvania? This doesn’t happen too often. We really want the kids to enjoy it, soak it all in, but at the same time, show a lot of appreciation.” New York, meanwhile, has taken a more business-like approach to block out any potential distractions. “I’ll always ask (the play-

ers), ‘What does it mean?’ and they’ll all say, ‘Absolutely nothing. We’re here to play baseball.’ They know why we’re here,” New York manager Joe Calabrese said. For many teams, simply reaching South Williamsport is the goal. Not New York. “We’re not just happy to be here,” said Calabrese, who has been coaching teams in MidIsland Little League for over 20 years. “We’re looking to win the Little League World Series.” Hawaii, the West region representatives, opened the tournament with a 2-0 win over a

talented Georgia team in the longest game in Little League World Series history, and took down Michigan 8-3 two days later. New York has been equally impressive on the mound, defeating Iowa 5-2 and Texas 2-1. However, it will have to do it without the arm of Gregory Bruno, who has pitched eight of the team’s 12 innings so far and must rest by Little League pitch-count rules. Calabrese, whose son Joe Calabrese Jr. also made it to Williamsport in 2006, is confident that his deep roster has what it takes to prevail.

Stanton to return to old stomping grounds with Yankees By STEVEN WINE AP Sports Writer

MIAMI — The Yankees slugger choked up. Giancarlo Stanton acknowledged being touched by the warm reception he received the first time he stepped to the plate Tuesday at Marlins Park. He saluted the crowd, waved and patted his chest as he looked to the stands. He then singled sharply to left field. “It’s a lot to take in,” Stanton said. “A lot of things go into this — where I’m at now. I grew up over there.”

Over there is the Marlins clubhouse, where Stanton spent his first eight major league seasons before being traded last November. That made the Yankees’ two-game series in Miami his homecoming. Stanton went 2 for 6, missing his 300th career home run by a few feet when he doubled in the fifth, and the Yankees won 2-1 in 12 innings. Before the game, he sat in the visitors’ dugout before batting practice, which gave him a different angle of Marlins Park’s kitschy, colossal home sculpture. “I still don’t like it,” he said with a

laugh. “But it won’t be going off if I hit one.” Stanton activated the moveable sculpture more than any other player before leaving the Marlins. Speaking of himself in the plural, he said it was weird but good to be back, and said he harbored no hard feelings about the way his time with the Marlins ended after eight seasons. “We know what the situation is over there now, and how it was,” he said. “We understand.” The situation is that former Yankees shortstop and new Marlins CEO Derek

Jeter rebooted the woebegone Miami franchise, trading away several big contracts for prospects with the goal of becoming competitive in a few years. Stanton, coming off a 59-homer MVP season, wanted no part of a rebuilding project and approved a trade to the Yanks. Now he’s likely to make the playoffs for the first time, while the Marlins are headed for a ninth consecutive losing season. “I hope they’ll figure it out,” Stanton said. “I hope they get it turned around. It will take a couple of years. But if the pieces are put together right,

I think they’ll turn it around.” Jeter didn’t talk with the media before the series opener. But Marlins manager Don Mattingly acknowledged it has been different without Stanton — and without Christian Yelich, Marcell Ozuna and Dee Gordon, who were also traded. “You miss all those guys,” Mattingly said. “Some good players went out the door as we embarked on building this thing to the level we wanted and trying to build some continuity and sustainability. You knew you were going to miss all those guys.”

Peterson ready for his next career move with Redskins By BENJAMIN STANDIG Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Adrian Peterson believes he still has something left. The 33-year-old running back had his first practice with the Redskins on Tuesday, a day after signing a one-year deal with Washington. “I can give a lot. I really believe that,” Peterson said following his first practice. “I feel like the sky is the limit.” Injuries and opportunity limited Peterson to 13 games over the past two seasons. He averaged 3.4 yards per carry in 10 games last season with the Saints and Cardinals. Peterson remained on the sideline throughout the offseason waiting for the next opportunity, a scenario he admitted was “rough.”

His workouts continued. Peterson was in his native Oklahoma when his agent said the Redskins wanted a look. The three-time NFL rushing champion was ready. “I know what I have left in the tank,” Peterson said. Despite his career achievements, Peterson didn’t big-time the workout opportunity. He volunteered to join other freeagent options in various drills. “He’s actually a physical freak,” Redskins coach Jay Gruden said. “Some of the backs we had in here were huffing and puffing, keeling over. He was standing straight up. He could have gone for another two hours.” The Redskins decided they couldn’t go forward with their limited options at running back for the final two preseason games and possibly their Week

1 opener at Arizona on Sept. 9. Washington, 28th in yards rushing last season, addressed the concern by selecting running back Derrius Guice in the second round of the draft. The LSU product’s rookie year ended with a season-ending knee injury in the first preseason game against New England. The Redskins lost Samaje Perine and Byron Marshall for an extended period of time as both suffered ankle injuries in Thursday’s preseason win over the New York Jets. After waiving undrafted free agent Martez Carter with an injury designation, the Redskins had only three healthy running backs available. One of them, Chris Thompson, has yet to play in the preseason following last season’s broken fibula. Robert Kelley, a 2016 undrafted free agent who

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emerged as Washington’s No. 1 running back during his rookie year and started 2017 on top of the depth chart, remains in the starting mix. Kapri Bibbs offers some depth. Adding Peterson and De’Veon Smith provides more. What happens going forward remains unsettled. “We haven’t really gotten into detail, but obviously they brought me in here for a reason.

I’m just going to play my role, whatever it is,” said Peterson, whose is three years removed from rushing for 1,485 yards with the Vikings. He finished with 529 yards last season. Last season’s numbers provided data for doubters who believe Peterson’s differencemaking days are done. “It shows me people don’t really know about football,” Peterson said of the naysay-

ers. “When people say, (3.4) yards per carry, there’s a lot that contributes to that as well. I just brush it off and continue to work.” That work began Tuesday with the Redskins. “It’s his first practice. He did a great job today,” said Gruden, who stated he hoped to get Peterson some work in Friday’s preseason game against Denver.

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PADRES 4, ROCKIES 3

DENVER (AP) — Eric Hosmer and Austin Hedges homered off Tyler Anderson and San Diego Pafirst for the third run. Tyler Flowers dres cooled off surging Colorado. scored on a wild pitch in the ninth The Rockies arrived home after to make it 6-0. a 5-1 trip that included a four-game sweep of Atlanta. Continued from page A7

RAYS 4, ROYALS 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Blake Snell helped Tampa Bay match a team record with 27 consecutive shutout innings and the Rays beat Kansas City. The scoreless stretch ended when Snell (15-5) allowed a fifth-inning solo homer to Ryan O’Hearn. Snell struck out 11 and gave up four hits in six innings. The left-hander has 13 straight home starts of allowing one earned run or fewer, which is longest stretch in the majors since 1913, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

CARDINALS 5, DODGERS 2 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Yadier Molina and Marcell Ozuna slugged two-run homers, and St. Louis improved to a major leaguebest 16-4 in August.

ASTROS 3, MARINERS 2 SEATTLE (AP) — Josh Reddick homered to give Houston the lead and the Astros held on to beat Seattle.

DIAMONDBACKS 5, ANGELS 4

TIGERS 2, CUBS 1

PHOENIX (AP) — Angels pitcher Cam Bedrosian threw wildly after fielding a sacrifice bunt attempt in the bottom of the ninth inning, allowing Jon Jay to score and give Arizona the win.

DETROIT (AP) — Jordan Zimmermann pitched six effective innings, Victor Martinez had three hits and Detroit beat slumping Chicago. Zimmermann (6-5) allowed seven hits, struck out five and walked one, continuing the Cubs’ ATHLETICS 6, misery. Drew VerHagen, Joe RANGERS 0 Jimenez and Shane Greene comOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — bined for three innings of one-hit relief, closing out the Tigers’ sec- Khris Davis homered for the second win in seven games. Greene ond straight night to move him two away from a third straight 40-homgot his 27th save in 30 chances. er season, backing Brett Anderson’s gem as Oakland beat Texas.

BLUE JAYS 8, ORIOLES 2

TORONTO (AP) — Justin Smoak and Kendrys Morales hit back-to-back home runs, Aledmys Diaz and Billy McKinney also connected, and Toronto improved to 9-0 at home against struggling Baltimore. Blue Jays right-hander Sam Gaviglio (3-6) pitched seven innings to snap a 15-start winless streak, earning his first victory since May 25 at Philadelphia. Gaviglio allowed two runs and six hits.

TWINS 5, WHITE SOX 2 CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Kopech’s anticipated debut for the Chicago White Sox was cut short by a rain delay, and Eddie Rosario led Minnesota to the win.

NATIONALS 10, PHILLIES 4

WASHINGTON (AP) — Andrew Stevenson and Wilmer Difo hit back-to-back home runs in a five-run sixth inning and Washington rallied for the win hours after METS 6, GIANTS 3 the Nationals traded Daniel MurNEW YORK (AP) — Rookie phy and Matt Adams. Jeff McNeil went 4 for 4 and hit a go-ahead double with two outs in REDS 9, BREWERS 7 the eighth inning that lifted New York past San Francisco. MILWAUKEE (AP) — Scooter McNeil equaled his career high Gennett burned his former team by getting four hits for the sec- in a big way, hittting a tiebreakond time since making his major ing solo homer with two out in the league debut last month. Michael ninth as Cincinnati prevented MilConforto homered and drove in waukee from gaining ground in the four runs. National League playoff race.

Scoreboard baseball National League

East Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 70 55 .560 — Philadelphia 68 57 .544 2 Washington 63 63 .500 7½ N ew York 55 70 .440 15 Miami 50 77 .394 21 Central Division Chicago 71 53 .573 — St. Louis 70 57 .551 2½ Milwaukee 70 58 .547 3 Pittsburgh 63 64 .496 9½ Cincinnati 56 70 .444 16 West Division 70 56 .556 — Arizona Colorado 68 57 .544 1½ Los Angeles 67 60 .528 3½ San Francisco 62 65 .488 8½ San Diego 50 78 .391 21 Tuesday’s Games Atlanta 6, Pittsburgh 1 Washington 10, Philadelphia 4 Detroit 2, Chicago Cubs 1 N.Y. Mets 6, San Francisco 3 N.Y. Yankees 2, Miami 1, 12 innings Cincinnati 9, Milwaukee 7 San Diego 4, Colorado 3 Arizona 5, L.A. Angels 4 St. Louis 5, L.A. Dodgers 2 Wednesday’s Games Cincinnati (Stephenson 0-1) at Milwaukee (Peralta 5-4), 10:10 a.m. Atlanta (Teheran 8-7) at Pittsburgh (Williams 10-9), 3:05 p.m. Philadelphia (Eflin 9-4) at Washington (Strasburg 6-7), 3:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Lester 13-5) at Detroit (Liriano 3-8), 3:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Lynn 8-8) at Miami (Richards 3-7), 3:10 p.m. San Francisco (Kelly 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 8-3), 3:10 p.m. San Diego (Nix 1-1) at Colorado (Gray 9-7), 4:40 p.m. L.A. Angels (Despaigne 2-1) at Arizona (Buchholz 6-2), 5:40 p.m. St. Louis (Flaherty 7-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Buehler 6-4), 6:10 p.m.

American League

East Division W L Pct GB Boston 88 39 .693 — New York 79 46 .632 8 Tampa Bay 65 61 .516 22½ Toronto 57 69 .452 30½ Baltimore 37 89 .294 50½ Central Division Cleveland 73 52 .584 — Minnesota 60 65 .480 13 Detroit 52 74 .413 21½ Chicago 47 78 .376 26 Kansas City 38 88 .302 35½ West Division Houston 76 50 .603 — Oakland 76 50 .603 — Seattle 72 55 .567 4½ Los Angeles 63 64 .496 13½ Texas 56 72 .438 21 Tuesday’s Games Toronto 8, Baltimore 2 Cleveland 6, Boston 3 Detroit 2, Chicago Cubs 1 N.Y. Yankees 2, Miami 1, 12 innings Tampa Bay 4, Kansas City 1 Minnesota 5, Chicago White Sox 2 Arizona 5, L.A. Angels 4 Oakland 6, Texas 0 Houston 3, Seattle 2

Wednesday’s Games Baltimore (Hess 2-7) at Toronto (Pannone 0-0), 8:37 a.m. Minnesota (Gibson 7-9) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 4-3), 10:10 a.m. Texas (Minor 9-6) at Oakland (Jackson 4-2), 11:35 a.m. Houston (Morton 12-3) at Seattle (Gonzales 12-8), 12:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Lester 13-5) at Detroit (Liriano 3-8), 3:10 p.m. Cleveland (Carrasco 15-6) at Boston (Johnson 4-3), 3:10 p.m. Kansas City (Junis 6-11) at Tampa Bay (Stanek 1-3), 3:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Lynn 8-8) at Miami (Richards 3-7), 3:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Despaigne 2-1) at Arizona (Buchholz 6-2), 5:40 p.m. All Times ADT

Blue Jays 8, Orioles 2 Bal. 010 010 000 —2 7 2 Tor. 110 330 00x —8 12 0 Bundy, Meisinger (5), Scott (6), Carroll (7) and Joseph; Gaviglio, Petricka (8), Shafer (9) and Maile. W_Gaviglio 3-6. L_Bundy 7-12. HRs_Baltimore, Mullins (2). Toronto, McKinney (1), Smoak (19), Diaz (16), Morales (17).

Indians 6, Red Sox 3 Cle. 000 202 110 —6 13 1 Bos. 000 000 300 —3 5 0 Bieber, Cimber (7), A.Miller (8), Hand (9) and Gomes; Eovaldi, Kelly (6), Workman (7), Thornburg (8), Pomeranz (9) and Leon, Swihart. W_Bieber 7-2. L_Eovaldi 5-5. Sv_Hand (29). HRs_Cleveland, Gomes (12), Cabrera (6).

Rays 4, Royals 1 K.C. 000 010 000 —1 8 0 T.B. 010 201 00x —4 14 0 Sparkman, B.Smith (5), McCarthy (8) and Perez; Snell, Kolarek (7), Roe (8), Romo (9) and Perez. W_Snell 15-5. L_Sparkman 0-2. Sv_Romo (17). HRs_Kansas City, O’Hearn (5). Tampa Bay, Adames (7).

Twins 5, White Sox 2 Min. 000 200 003 —5 10 2 Chi. 010 000 100 —2 6 1 Berrios, Moya (6), May (8), Rogers (9) and Wilson, Garver; Kopech, Avilan (3), J.Gomez (4), Cedeno (6), Covey (7), Fry (9) and Narvaez. W_May 2-0. L_Covey 4-11. Sv_Rogers (2). HRs_Chicago, Delmonico (6), Moncada (16).

Athletics 6, Rangers 0 Tex. 000 000 000 —0 2 1 Oak. 100 012 20x —6 12 0 Jurado, Moore (6) and KinerFalefa; B.Anderson, Familia (8), Trivino (9) and Phegley. W_B. Anderson 3-3. L_Jurado 2-3. HRs_Oakland, Davis (38).

Astros 3, Mariners 2 Hou. 001 101 000 —3 10 0 Sea. 001 000 010 —2 9 0 Peacock, Valdez (2), J.Smith (7), Osuna (8), Rondon (9) and Stassi, Maldonado; Vincent, Detwiler (3), Duke (9) and Herrmann,

Zunino. W_Valdez 1-0. L_Detwiler 0-1. Sv_Rondon (14). HRs_Houston, Reddick (13).

(5). HRs_San Diego, Hedges (10), Hosmer (13). Colorado, Iannetta (9).

Tigers 2, Cubs 1

Reds 9, Brewers 7

Chi. 000 001 000 —1 8 0 Det. 200 000 00x —2 11 1

Cin. 003 400 002 —9 14 0 Mil. 401 000 020 —7 13 2

Hendricks, Chavez (8) and Contreras; Zimmermann, VerHagen (7), Jimenez (8), Greene (9) and McCann. W_Zimmermann 6-5. L_ Hendricks 9-10. Sv_Greene (27). HRs_Chicago, Rizzo (19).

Romano, Lorenzen (6), C.Reed (7), D.Hernandez (8), R.Iglesias (8) and Barnhart; Ju.Guerra, Burnes (6), T.Williams (9), Jennings (9), Knebel (9) and Kratz, Pina. W_R.Iglesias 2-1. L_Jennings 4-5. HRs_Cincinnati, Gennett (19). Milwaukee, Shaw (26), Schoop (1).

Yankees 2, Marlins 1 N.Y. 000 100 000 001 —2 9 1 Mia. 000 010 000 000 —1 7 0 (12 innings) Tanaka, Britton (7), Betances (8), Green (9), Holder (10), Cole (11), A.Chapman (12) and Au.Romine, Higashioka; Lopez, Guerrero (7), Conley (8), Steckenrider (9), Rucinski (10), Ja.Guerra (12) and Realmuto. W_Cole 4-1. L_Ja.Guerra 1-1. Sv_Kahnle (1). HRs_Miami, Dean (2).

D-Backs 5, Angels 4

Cardinals 5, Dodgers 2 S.L. 003 000 200 —5 7 1 L.A. 010 000 100 —2 9 1 Poncedeleon, Weaver (5), Shreve (7), C.Martinez (7), Norris (9) and Molina; Ryu, Floro (5), Hudson (7), Alexander (8), Ferguson (9) and Grandal. W_Weaver 7-11. L_ Ryu 3-1. Sv_Norris (26). HRs_St. Louis, Ozuna (16), Molina (16). Los Angeles, Machado (5).

racing

L.A. 002 000 200 —4 10 1 Ari. 202 000 001 —5 8 0 Pena, Alvarez (7), J.Anderson (8), Bedrosian (9) and R.Rivera, F.Arcia; Corbin, Hirano (7), Chafin (7), Bradley (7), Boxberger (9) and Mathis, Murphy. W_Boxberger 2-4. L_Bedrosian 5-3. HRs_Los Angeles, Marte (5). Arizona, Peralta (24).

Mets 6, Giants 3 S.F. 200 000 001 —3 5 0 N.Y. 000 000 24x —6 9 0 Stratton, Dyson (7), Watson (8) and Hundley; Matz, Oswalt (6), Lugo (9) and Plawecki. W_Oswalt 3-2. L_Watson 4-5. HRs_San Francisco, Longoria (13). New York, Conforto (18).

Braves 6, Pirates 1 Atl. Pit.

000 020 301 —6 8 0 000 000 001 —1 5 0

Gausman, Sobotka (9) and Suzuki, Flowers; Nova, Feliz (7), Holmes (8) and Cervelli. W_Gausman 8-9. L_Nova 7-8. HRs_Atlanta, Swanson 2 (12). Pittsburgh, Polanco (20).

Nationals 10, Phillies 4 Phi. 000 004 000 — 4 8 0 Was. 010 005 13x —10 14 1 Velasquez, Neris (5), Arano (5), Morgan (6), Ramos (7), Rios (8) and Alfaro; Roark, Grace (4), Cordero (6), Collins (7), J.Miller (7), Glover (8), Suero (8), K.Herrera (9) and Wieters. W_Cordero 1-0. L_Arano 1-2. HRs_Philadelphia, Quinn (1). Washington, Stevenson (1), Difo (4), Zimmerman (11).

Padres 4, Rockies 3 S.D. 210 001 000 —4 11 2 Col. 002 010 000 —3 7 1 Erlin, Stock (6), Castillo (7), Stammen (8), Yates (9) and Hedges; T.Anderson, Oberg (7), Oh (8), Ottavino (9) and Iannetta. W_Erlin 3-3. L_T.Anderson 6-6. Sv_Yates

NASCAR Cup Schedule (winners)

Through Aug. 20 May 27 — Coca-Cola 600 (Kyle Busch) June 3 — Pocono 400 (Martin Truex Jr) June 10 — FireKeepers Casino 400 (Clint Bowyer) June 24 — Toyota / Save Mart 350 (Martin Truex Jr) July 1 — OvertonaÂ€Â™s 400 (Kyle Busch) July 7 — Coke Zero Sugar 400 (Erik Jones) July 14 — Quaker State 400 (Martin Truex Jr) July 22 — Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 (Kevin Harvick) July 29 — Gander Outdoors 400 (Kyle Busch) Aug. 5 — Go Bowling at The Glen (Chase Elliott) Aug. 12 — Consumers Energy 400 (Kevin Harvick) Aug. 18 — Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race (Kurt Busch) Sep. 2 — Bojangles’ Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. Sep. 9 — Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard, Speedway, Ind. Sep. 16 — South Point 400, Las Vegas, Nev. Sep. 22 — Federated Auto Parts 400, Richmond, Va. Sep. 30 — Bank of America Roval 400, Concord, N.C. Oct. 7 — Dover 400, Dover, Del. Oct. 14 — 1000Bulbs.com 500, Talladega, Ala. Oct. 21 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 28 — First Data 500, Martinsville, Va. Nov. 4 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 11 — Can-Am 500, Avondale, Ariz. Nov. 18 — Ford Ecoboost 400, Homestead, Fla. x-non-points race

transactions

BASEBALL American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed OF Justin Upton on the 10-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 19. Recalled OF Jabari Blash from Salt Lake (PCL). NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed SS Didi Gregorius on the 10-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 20. Recalled INF Luke Voit from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). National League CHICAGO CUBS — Acquired INF Daniel Murphy from Washington for INF Andruw Monasterio and a player to be named or cash consideration. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned RHP Derek Law to Sacramento (PCL). Recalled RHP Chris Stratton from Richmond (EL). WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Traded 1B Matt Adams to St. Louis for cash considerations. Recalled INF Adrian Sanchez and OF Andrew Stevenson from Syracuse (IL). Placed LHP Tommy Milone on the 10-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 20. Reinstated RHP Kelvin Herrera from the 10-day DL. FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Baltimore CB Jimmy Smith, without pay, for the first four regular-season games for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy. NFL — WR Victor Cruz announced his retirement. BUFFALO BILLS — Signed P Jon Ryan to a one-year contract. Released K Tyler Davis. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed C Jacob Judd. NEW YORK JETS — Claimed K Jason Myers off waivers from the Seattle Seahawks. Waived injured WR Jonah Trinnaman. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Claimed CB Antwuan Daivs off waivers from the Detroit Lions. Waived S Tevin Mitchel. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed TE Matt Weiser. Waived TE Colin Jeter. TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to a contract extension with WR Rishard Matthews through 2019. Agreed to terms with LBs Jeff Knox, Nyles Morgan and Deontae Skinner. Waived LBs Brandon Chubb and Davond Dade and OL Matt Diaz. HOCKEY National Hockey League CALGARY FLAMES — Signed F Anthony Peluso to a one-year, two-way contract. OTTAWA SENATORS — Announced the resignation of Randy Lee, assistant general manager. SOCCER National Women’s Soccer League WASHINGTON SPIRIT — Fired Jim Gabarra, coach and general manager. Named assistant coach Tom Torres interim coach and Chris Hummer general manager. COLLEGE LA SALLE — Named Katie Rhodes women’s lacrosse coach. TEMPLE — Named Morgyn Seigfried associate athletic director for digital strategy and production.

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was leading libertarian candidate William Toien in the Democratic primary as of Tuesday night with 84.9 percent of the vote to Toien’s 15.13 percent. Begich will move forward to the general election in November and face Dunleavy and incumbent Gov. Bill Walker — who is running as an independent — in the general election Nov. 6. In the lieutenant governor’s race, Kevin Meyer was leading the field for the Republican nomination over five contenders with 35.8 percent of the vote, according to the preliminary results. Democratic candidate Debra Call, the sole candidate in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor, will move forward to the general. For U.S. Congress, Rep. Don Young held a handy lead over two challengers for the Republican nomination. On the Democratic side, nonpartisan candidate Alyse Galvin is leading the race for the Democratic nomination in the general against Young. Galvin was leading the Democratic field with 55 percent, followed by Dimitri Shein with 22.9 percent, Carol Hafner with 14.7 percent and Christophe Cumings with 7.4 percent. On the Kenai Peninsula, voters selected candidates for House of Representatives districts 29, 30 and 31 and Senate District O. In District 29, Republican nominee Ben Carpenter and Democratic nominee Shawn Butler will move forward to the general election. The winner will replace outgoing representative Mike Chenault and represent a broad swath of the Kenai Peninsula from Nikiski to Sterling to Seward. Butler was the sole candidate in the Democratic primary race for the district, while Carpenter is leading candidate Wayne Ogle with 52.37 percent to Ogle’s 47.63 percent with 10 of 11 precincts reporting Tuesday night. In District 30, incumbent Republican candidate Gary Knopp ran unchallenged and will move on to the general. In District 31, incumbent Paul Seaton — who ran unopposed as a nonpartisan candidate in the Democratic primary — will face off against Republican nominee Sarah Vance in the general election in November. The District 31 Republican primary race was a three-way contest, with Vance taking 43.2 percent and beating out Anchor Point’s John Cox with 41.95 percent and Kasilof’s Henry Kroll 14.85 percent.

In District O, challenger Ron Gillham was leading incumbent Peter Micciche by a narrow margin — Gillham had 50.4 percent of the vote to Micciche’s 49.6 percent — by press time, with 13 of 17 precincts reporting. No candidates filed for the Democratic primary, so the winner will move on to the general unchallenged. Among peninsula voters, two main issues dominated the conversation: crime and the Permanent Fund Dividend. Many voters said they specifically wanted to vote for candidates who would reverse Walker and the Legislature’s moves to cap or reduce the amount of the dividend to help pay for government. Soldotna resident Jim Walters, who turned out to vote at the Soldotna Sports Com-

plex, identified crime and financial solvency as his top priorities. He said he supports cuts to the government budget in lieu of diminished returns from the permanent dividend fund. “I think the government’s got to cut back instead of keep growing. The politicians keep thinking they don’t have to run a balanced budget. I don’t know of a home that doesn’t. If you don’t have a budget, next thing you do you’re homeless,” Walters said. He also hoped to see the end of Senate Bill 91 — a massive crime reform package passed in 2016 and amended in the last Legislature. “Something needs to be done,” he said. “I think it needs to be repealed entirely

and gone at it from a different angle. What they’ve done so far — they’ve just made it so that serious criminals are getting to walk and it’s just not right.” Walters said he was primarily interested in the outcome of the governor’s race and said he supported “anybody but Walker.” Soldotna resident Abraham Anasogak also expressed a desire to see a change in the current administration and said he was voting to preserve permanent dividend fund returns. “I would like to get the full PFD instead of half of it,” he said. He said he would prefer to see the government reduce spending rather than cut the dividend. “They should make cuts

where cuts need to be made,” he said. Abe Ishmael, who turned out to vote at Kenai’s Challenger Learning Center on Tuesday afternoon, expressed apathy about the current election. “(I’m) not too impressed,” Abe Ishmael said. “It’s always the same story, you know?” Alternatively, Shea Barnes, who also voted at the Challenger Center in Kenai, emphasized the importance of participating in the electoral process and said that even a small number of people can be the deciding factor in a race. “I think everybody should get out and vote because it makes a difference,” Barnes said. While Tuesday’s ballots

only had the names of Alaska candidates, Kenai voter Vickie Herrmann saw her vote as a contribution to making change on a national scale. “I want to do everything I can to get Trump out,” Herrmann said. “I want to see how people vote — if they vote anti-Trump or not.” Kenai voter Rebecca Anderson said she was primarily interested in the outcome of the governor’s race. “I think the governor’s election is pretty important and I am interested in voting for Dunleavy this year,” Anderson said. “I think it’s important to always vote your conscience and to make good choices.” Reach the Peninsula Clarion newsroom at news@peninsulaclarion.com.

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to overcome drug addiction. A recovering addict herself, Thiessen said she’s hopeful the site can be a place where people learn firsthand about the dangers of doing drugs. “That’s what Zac would have wanted,” she said. When Schneider’s body was found, police said no foul play was suspected. However, in January two men — Michael Davison, 20, and Toby James Gause, 27 — were charged with tampering with evidence for allegedly dumping his body alongside the road. But the fact nobody called police to try and help her son still haunts Thiessen. “My son deserved better than a ditch,” she said. However, Thiessen said her hope for the people who were with her son when he died is that they get help. “My wish and my desire is they get their life straight,” she said. “That’s my wish, that at least what has happened will affect someone in a positive way to make them stop doing that stuff.” A date has not been set for a memorial dedication, but Thiessen said she’s already been touched by the outpouring of support for her son. “It’s cool how the community has come together to become more involved in this,” she said.

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About our visitors to Alaska Fishing, camping, traveling, visitors and mosquitos — you are truly an Alaskan if you smell like mosquito repellent and fish. Or campfire smoke and mosquito repellent. A weekend on the river banks of the Kenai River or subsistence fishing on the beaches means daylight most of the time, not knowing what time it is — or, for that matter, not caring. Summer and visitors have arrived and so have the fishing and traveling, camping and — oh yes — the mosquitos. For some, it means your relatives and friends come to see you from the “Lower 48.” Take your visitors to see Homer, a 3-hour drive if you stop at the mouth of the Anchor River for lunch. It takes about 4 hours from Anchorage to Kenai because of the traffic and motor homes on the road. It takes that long from Kenai to Homer if there is heavy motor home traffic. It also takes 3 to 4 hours to Seward from Kenai, if you dillydally along the way…it may even take 5 hours! Seward has the Kenai Fjords tours out into the Resurrection Bay to see the puffins, seals, otters, whales and eagles and the beautiful mountain peaks. Or the Seward Salmon Derby Days or the Fourth of July and watch all those muscle guys and gals in shorts and shirts, run up and back down Mount Marathon. Chances are the person who won is your neighbor. Be sure and pick a place to watch that serves ice cream cones close by because it is one of the hottest days in Seward. Top the day off by visiting the SeaLife Center — give yourself plenty of time because you can spend hours and hours learning about the habitat of the seals, otters, whales, octopus, jelly fish and the diving murres, other beautiful birds and all the other creatures of the sea. Homer has many charters to take you to all the bays across Cook Inlet and Kachemak Bay, just to go fishing and catch your limit. Take a boat ride to Seldovia — you will never forget all the creatures of the sea you will see! The scenery is just as stunning. The Homer Spit and the boat harbor are worth walking the piers to see all the beautiful boats, hike the beaches of the Homer Spit, visit the Salty Dawg and all the little shops. Look up the shrimp and crab man and pay the price for the wonderful seafood. When you head home we used to stop at the Anchor River Inn for a great seafood dinner. Fishing out of Anchor River boat See ANNIE, page B6

This Aug. 9, 2018 photo shows a green chile cheese portobello burger in New York. This dish is from a recipe by Sara Moulton. (Sara Moulton via AP)

Mushroom burger glorified by chilies and cheese By SARA MOULTON Associated Press

Some of the greatest chilies you’ll ever eat hail from New Mexico’s Hatch Valley, which is why — naturally enough — tiny Hatch, New Mexico, is known as “The Chili Capital of the World.” This being the season for Hatch chilies, I thought it might be fun to showcase them at one of your very own backyard parties, perhaps over Labor Day weekend.

There’s something about the soil and growing conditions in that region of New Mexico that creates the uniquely delicious flavor of the Hatch chili, just as the “terroir” of the world’s great wine-growing regions produces the best grapes. Hatch chilies are long and green, boasting a thick skin and thick flesh. Their heat ranges from mild to flaming hot. Local folks tend to buy these local favorites already roasted and in 25-pound bags, and then to store the chilies in their freezer for use throughout the year.

The rest of us can snatch them up in supermarkets from coast to coast or online in smaller amounts, already charred and peeled. If you’re open to charring and peeling the pepper yourself, just apply the same methods you’d use with any other chili: hold it with tongs over an open gas flame, or char the skin on a hot grill or cast-iron skillet, or place the chili under a broiler until it’s blackened on all sides, then transfer it to a bowl and See BURGER, page B6

Rice salad with asparagus that’s a hearty side dish By AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN Associated Press

This fresh, hearty side dish will stand out among its richer, creamier counterparts on the holiday table. We achieved perfectly cooked brown rice by boiling it in abundant water. Sprinkling the rice with bright lemon juice while it was still warm boosted its flavor. To easily turn our brown rice into an appealing side salad, we stirred in crisp, browned bites of asparagus, more lemon juice, creamy goat cheese, and crunchy toasted almonds. We like the flavor of brown basmati rice, but any long-grain brown rice is acceptable. Look for asparagus that is bright green and firm. Toast the almonds in a skillet (without any oil) set over medium heat, shaking the pan occasionally to prevent scorching.

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1 shallot, minced 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest plus 2 tablespoons juice 4 ounces goat cheese, crumbled (1 cup) 1/2 cup slivered almonds, toasted 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley Bring 3 quarts water to boil in large pot. Add rice and salt; cook, stirring occasionally, until rice is tender, 22 This undated photo provided by America’s Test Kitchen in August 2018 to 25 minutes. Drain rice, transfer to shows a brown rice salad with asparagus and goat cheese in Brookline, Mass. This recipe appears in the cookbook “Holiday Entertaining.” (Carl See RICE, page B6 Tremblay/America’s Test Kitchen via AP)

Quick, flavorful queso dip great when there’s fresh corn around By KATIE WORKMAN Associated Press

I’ve always loved the saying, “everything in moderation, including moderation.” This is how I think about cooking and eating in general; I usually like to cook and eat pretty healthily, but sometimes I like to just roll around in cream and butter and cheese. And not low fat cheese. This hot queso dip is that kind of recipe. But look . there’s corn in it too! And scallions! And you can sprinkle radishes on top! That’s kind of healthy. Maybe we should just call this “Hot Corn Dip.” Or, “Hot Corn Dip That’s So Good You Might Cry a Little, But Not in an Undignified Way.” Yes, definitely, absolutely make this when fresh corn is still around. It’s a lovely way to use up those ears of corn that seem to be exploding in the markets from July through September. And even though the corn is of course slightly smothered in cheese and creaminess, you can still taste that sweet, clean flavor. But don’t be shy about using frozen corn off-season, either. Did

I mention that it’s smothered in cheesy creaminess? Topping the sultry mixture with some slivered radishes and additional scallions adds more color and crunch and a welcome pop of freshness. I also have added some pickled jalapenos on the top, in case you’d like to bump up the heat. Basically, you should feel free to poke around in your fridge and find whatever you think would add some color, crunch, heat, texture, etc., and sprinkle that thing all over this dip.

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Servings: 8 Start to finish: 30 minutes 2 cups fresh or frozen and thawed corn kernels 1 cup half and half or whole milk (or a combo) 2 teaspoons pureed chipotle in adobo 1 tablespoon canola, vegetable or olive oil 4 scallions, white and light green parts, thinly sliced 2 cups (1/2 pound) shredded Monterey Jack cheese Julienned radishes, sliced scallions, and/or chopped pickled jala-

penos to sprinkle on top (optional) Tortilla chips or pita chips to serve In a food processor or a blender, pulse the corn with the milk and chipotle puree until it becomes a coarse puree. Preheat the broiler. Heat a heavy, medium-size skillet, preferably cast iron, over medium high heat. Add the oil, then add the 4 sliced scallions and stir for about 3 minutes, until they become tender. Add the corn puree and the cheese, and stir frequently until everything is blended and the cheese is melted, about 4 minutes. Transfer the pan to the broiler for about 1 minute until the top is nicely browned. Let it sit for a couple of minutes to thicken up a bit. Sprinkle on the radishes, scallions and jalapenos as desired and serve in the skillet, warning everyone to mind the hot pan. Serve with the tortilla chips. Nutrition information per serving: 175 calories; 106 calories from fat; 12 g fat (6 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 28 mg cholesterol; 210 mg sodium; 10 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 4 g sugar; 9 g protein. This November 2017 photo shows hot corn queso dip in New York. This dish is from a recipe by Katie Workman. (Lucy Beni via AP)

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PUBLIC AUCTION Aspen Mini Storage, Inc. September 1, 2018, Noon-2pm Unit # 11 Jerame A. Nichol Unit # 37 Teresa L. Green Unit # 210 Carolyn Mae Crist Unit # 272 Lance Alexander Unit # 354 Grace Oseuk Unit # 357 Ginger & Chance Harris Unit # 380 Lance Alexander Pub: 8/22,26,29/18 822441

LEGALS INVITATION TO BID F-E Contracting is a General Contractor soliciting bids for the Kenai Municipal Airport 2018 Terminal Rehabilitation Project. We are an equal opportunity employer and request subcontractor and supplier quotes including certified MBE, WBE & DBE firms for all aspects of work. Bids are due NLT 10:00 AM August 27th. Please send quotes to fecon@mtaonline.net or fax 907745-7680. Any questions contact Dylan McKenzie @ 907-745-1465. Pub: 8/22,23,24,26,27/2018 822615 Sanding RFP Ninilchik Traditional Council is requesting proposals for sanding services for several locations in Ninilchik, including our Housing Clients located in Kasilof and Ninilchik. The contract will run from October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2020. Must be insured. We adhere to Indian preference hiring. Bid opens August 20, 2018 @ 9:00am and closes September 18, 2018 @ 5:00pm. Please contact Diane Reynolds for Bid Packet at diane@ninilchiktribe-nsn.gov Pub: 8/20-27/2018 821680 Snowplowing RFP Ninilchik Traditional Council is requesting proposals for snowplowing services for several locations in Ninilchik, including our Housing Clients located in Kasilof and Ninilchik. The contract will run from October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2020. Must be insured. We adhere to Indian preference hiring. Bid opens August 20, 2018 @ 9:00am and closes September 18, 2018 @ 5:00pm. Please contact Diane Reynolds for Bid Packet at diane@ninilchiktribe-nsn.gov Pub: 8/20-27/2018 821676

LEGALS 2018 Tesoro Public Notice Tesoro Alaska Company, Kenai Refinery, Mile 22 Kenai Spur Hwy., will be conducting annual employee fire extinguisher training on August 22 through September 13, 2018. The training will be conducted between the hours of 8 am and 2 pm. Gasoline, diesel and fuel gas will be used during the training. Smoke and/or flames may be visible from the highway and are part of the normal training exercises. If you have any questions or concerns you may contact Andy Wheeler, Tesoro Environmental Health and Safety Manager, at 776-8191. Pub: 8/ 22, 26, 9/ 2, 9 & 16/2018

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Alaska Department of Natural Resources Water Resources Section 550 W 7th Ave, Suite 1020 Anchorage, Alaska 99501-3562 (907) 269-8600 (907) 269-8904 NOTICE OF WATER RIGHT APPLICATION LAS 31353 Pursuant to AS 46.15 and rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, notice is hereby given that an application has been received from City of Kenai, 210 Fidalgo Ave, Kenai, AK 99611, to appropriate water as follows: To withdraw up to 564.55 acre-feet of water per year (503,620 gallons per day) from January 1st through December 31st from a drilled well, 240 feet in depth, known as Well 2C. The well is located within Section 36, Township 6 North, Range 11 West, Seward Meridian. Water use is for The City of Kenai Water Treatment Facility. This water right is appurtenant to the public water system for the City of Kenai, located within SE¼NE¼ Section 36, Township 6 North, Range 11 West, Seward Meridian. Priority date is August 2, 2016. The public is invited to comment on these actions. For further information on the subject, please contact Henry Brooks at the above address or telephone number. The Water Resources Section must receive comments in writing by 5:00 p.m., September 6, 2018 at the above address to be considered. If issued, a permit may be extended for good cause shown, pursuant to AS 46.15.110 and 11 AAC 93.120(f), without additional public notice. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources complies with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The state is prepared to accommodate individuals with disabilities by providing auxiliary aids when requested. Individuals with audio impairments who wish to respond to this notice by telephone may call the Department’s Public Information Center in Anchorage between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., M-F at TDD # 269-8411. The Department of Natural Resources reserves the right to waive technical defects in this publication. Pub: 8/22/18 822391

Alaska Department of Natural Resources Water Resources Section 550 W 7th Ave, Suite 1020 Anchorage, Alaska 99501-3562 (907) 269-8600 (907) 269-8904 NOTICE OF WATER RIGHT APPLICATION LAS 29045 Pursuant to AS 46.15 and rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, notice is hereby given that an application has been received from City of Kenai, 210 Fidalgo Ave, Kenai, AK 99611, to appropriate water as follows: To withdraw up to 1,960 acre-feet of water per year (1,748,617 gallons per day) from January 1st through December 31st from a drilled well, 240 feet in depth, known as Well 2E. The well is located within Section 36, Township 6 North, Range 11 West, Seward Meridian. Water use is for The City of Kenai Water Treatment Facility. This water right is appurtenant to the public water system for the City of Kenai, located within SE¼NE¼ Section 36, Township 6 North, Range 11 West, Seward Meridian. Priority date is April 1, 2013. The public is invited to comment on these actions. For further information on the subject, please contact Henry Brooks at the above address or telephone number. The Water Resources Section must receive comments in writing by 5:00 p.m., September 6, 2018 at the above address to be considered. If issued, a permit may be extended for good cause shown, pursuant to AS 46.15.110 and 11 AAC 93.120(f), without additional public notice. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources complies with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The state is prepared to accommodate individuals with disabilities by providing auxiliary aids when requested. Individuals with audio impairments who wish to respond to this notice by telephone may call the Department’s Public Information Center in Anchorage between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., M-F at TDD # 269-8411. The Department of Natural Resources reserves the right to waive technical defects in this publication. Pub: 8/22/18 822385

PUBLIC NOTICE Kodiak Microwave System, LLC has constructed multiple telecommunications towers in the Kenai Peninsula Borough. Pursuant to federal regulations, a review of the effects of the towers on historic properties is being conducted. If there are concerns with any of the towers and their effects, interested parties should submit their questions, comments, or concerns in writing to Michael Yarborough with Cultural Resource Consultants LLC or Hayden Maxwell with Great Northern Engineering LLC. Mr. Yarborough may be contacted by email at mry@crcalaska.com or by letter at 3504 E. 67th Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99507. Mr. Maxwell can be contacted by phone and (907) 745-6988 or by email at general@gne-ak.com. The information for the sites is listed below. Site Name: Nanwalek Approximate Site Address: 63172 Chicklouk St, Homer, AK 99603 Latitude: 59° 21’ 31.8” N Longitude: 151° 55’ 16.3” W Tower Height: 89 Feet Tower Type: Self-Supported Lattice Tower Approximate Construction Date: December 2014 Site Name: Dangerous Cape Approximate Site Address: Northeast Corner of Township 9 South, Region 15 West, Seward Meridian, Section 20 Latitude: 59° 23’ 19.4” N Longitude: 151° 50’ 10.8” W Tower Height: 36 Feet Tower Type: Self-Supported Lattice Tower Approximate Construction Date: December 2014 Site Name: Port Graham Approximate Site Address: 63695 Graham Rd, Homer, AK 99603 Latitude: 59° 21’ 03.4” N Longitude: 151° 49’ 56.8” W Tower Height: 90 Feet Tower Type: Self-Supported Lattice Tower Approximate Construction Date: December 2014 Site Name: Skyline (COLLOCATION ONLY) Approximate Site Address: 1033 Skyline Dr, Homer, AK 99603 Latitude: 59° 40’ 11.9” N Longitude: 151° 30’ 46.6” W Collocation Description: Two eight-foot-diameter, drumstyle antennas have been mounted to an existing telecommunications tower, and a small 8-by-12-foot equipment shelter was placed near the base of the tower. Approximate Antenna Collocation Date: October 2014 Tower Height: 104 Feet Tower Type: Self-Supported Lattice Tower Approximate Tower Construction Date: October 2014 Pub: Date 8/22/18 822460

TRANSFER OF CONTROLLING INTEREST ALASKA GROWTH, LLC, doing business as ALASKA GROWTH, located at 49787 Island Lake Road, Nikiski, AK 99635 is applying under 3AAC 306.045 for transfer of controlling interest in a Standard Marijuana Cultivation Facility (3AAC306.400(a)(2)), license #13257. The transfer involves a change in ownership percentage from Jon A Tuttle 100% to Edith Von Weltin 100%. Interested persons may object to the applicatoin by submitting a written statement of reasons for the objection to their local government, the applicant, and the Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office (AMCO) not later than 30 days after the director has determined the application to be complete and has given written notice to the local government. Once an applicaition is determined to be complete, the objection deadline and a copy of the application will be posted on AMCO’s website at http://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/amco. Objections should be sent to AMCO at marijuana.licensing@alaska.gov or to 550 W 7th Ave, Suite 1600, Anchorage, AK 99501. Pub: 8/22,29,9/5/2018 822530

LEGALS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA AT KENAI In the Matter of the estate of Tommy R. Roberts Sr. Decedent Date of Birth 5-22-1927 Case No. 3KN1800142 PR NOTICE TO CREDITORS You are notified that the court has appointed GuyNel Welsh as personal representative of this estate. All persons having claims against the person who died are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Dated this 6th day of August, 2018 GuyNel Welsh Personal Representative 56275 Foley Dr. Kenai, AK 99611 Pub: 8/8,15,22/2018 820478 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT KENAI In the Matter of the Estate of DANIEL PATRICK TOLOFF, Deceased. Case No. 3KN-18-00192 PR NOTICE TO CREDITOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, at DOLIFKA & ASSOCIATES, P.C., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.O. Box 498, Soldotna, Alaska, 99669. DATED this 13th day of August, 2018. PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES /s/SCOTT ALLAN TOLOFF Pub: 8/15,22,29/2018 821532

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Requires knowledge of and experience in general office skills, bookkeeping, accounting procedures, and data entry. Computer skills required. Excellent organization and communication skills. Must be accurate with attention to detail, flexible, able to work independently and as a team. Demonstrated ability to handle multiple priorities. Send cover letter, resume and references to Executive Director, The LeeShore Center, 325 S. Spruce St., Kenai, AK 99611 by September 5, 2018. EOE. Operating Engineers Apprenticeship Heavy Equipment Operators and HD Mechanics The Alaska Operating Engineers/Employers Training Trust is pleased to announce recruitment for Heavy Equipment Operator and HD Mechanics. To be eligible, applicants must submit all required documents: Completed application; HS Transcripts & Diploma or GED test scores & Certificate; Birth certificate (proof of 18 years of age); Valid AK Driver’s license (Rural Alaskans without driver’s license may contact our office); 5 year DMV Driving Record (showing no DUIs in the past 3 years); Background Check (minimum 5 years); Social Security card; DD214 (for veterans); Work Keys test scores (taken at Job Center) Graphic Literacy, Applied Mathematics, and Workplace Documents, each passed at a minimum of level 4. $30.00 non-refundable application fee; résumé, letters of recommendation & certificates of training (optional); Note: pre-indenture hair follicle drug testing required. Applications will be available for pick up and turn-in August 20th through September 7th, 2017 from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm at: Alaska Operating Engineers Employers Training Trust, 5400 N Cunningham Rd / PO Box 0989 Palmer, AK 99645 1-877-746-3117, www.aoeett.org Alaska Operating Engineers/Employers Training Trust will not discriminate against apprenticeship applicants or apprentices based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), sexual orientation, genetic information, or because they are an individual with a disability or a person 40 years old or older. Alaska Operating Engineers/Employers Training Trust will take affirmative action to provide equal opportunity in apprenticeship and will operate the apprenticeship program as required under Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations, part 30.

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Adjunct Faculty Position Process Technology and/or Instrumentation Location: Kenai River Campus Opportunities include classroom, on-line, and lab intensive instruction. Duties depend on educational background or industry experience. The Successful candidate will have the following qualifications: * Experience teaching, or tutoring, or training adults * Process Technology degree or industry experience

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In addition to a per-credit salary, adjuncts receive a 3-credit tuition waiver each semester they teach, which can be used personally or by family members. To apply online go to: www.kpc.alaska.edu –KPC Employment, Adjunct Faculty Position. UA is an AA/EO employer and educational institution and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual: www.alaska.edu/nondiscrimination.

Assistant Professor of Math KPC’s Kenai River Campus in Soldotna, Alaska is seeking an excellent individual to fill its Assistant Professor of Math position. It is a fulltime, 9 month per year, bipartite, tenure-track position. This enthusiastic individual will teach 100-200 level math courses, develop and teach courses online, advise students, and participate in university and community service. Salary will be commensurate with experience, to begin August 2019. For more information and to apply for this position go to KPC’s employment page at www.kpc.alaska.edu UAA is an AA/EO Employer and Educational Institution.

Kachemak Bay Campus Director KPC’s Kachemak Bay Campus is looking to hire a Campus Director that demonstrates leadership, strong communication skills, integrity and vision to lead the campus into the future. The KBC Director is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the campus and reports to the KPC Director/CEO. Expected hire date is December 2018. Review date is 8/29/18; posting may close on or after the review date. Salary is commensurate with experience, excellent benefits include health and life insurance, retirement and tuition waiver benefits. For more information and to apply for this position go to KPC’s employment page at www.kpc.alaska.edu UA is an AA/EO employer and educational institution and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual: www.alaska.edu/nondiscrimination

Senior Accountant KPC is seeking to hire an exceptional individual for its Senior Accountant position in Soldotna. It is a fulltime, 12-month, grade 79 position. Benefits and tuition waivers are included, biweekly salary $2,065.60. The Senior Accountant assists with management of the budget, reconciles all accounts and is the KPC Purchasing Officer. Review of applications will begin July 30, but applications will be accepted until the position closes. Expected hire date is August/September 2018.

All real estate advertising in this publication is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this publication are available on an equal opportunity basis.

For more information and to apply for this position go to KPC’s employment page at www.kpc.alaska.edu UA is an AA/EO employer and educational institution and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual: www.alaska.edu/nondiscrimination.

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Man has misgivings about rough talk in the bedroom whether other religious married couples do something similar to what you and your wife are doing, I think the odds are pretty good they are doing that and more. DEAR ABBY: My younger brother has been with his girlfriend for three years off and on. He’s 22; she’s 19. He joined the Abigail Van Buren Army during one of their breakups. (Being in the military was something he had wanted to do since he could talk.) When he was away, she mentally abused him because she “doesn’t trust other people.” My brother has told me he’s only with her because she has nobody else. (She comes from a dysfunctional family.) She doesn’t allow him to have any kind of social life when she’s not around. She’s now pregnant with what we believe is not my brother’s child, given they had broken up and the day they got back together, BAM! she’s preg-

nant. I know it takes only one time, but the dates really don’t add up. This is affecting his relationship with our family and his lifelong buddies. He’s my only brother, and I don’t want to just flush our relationship as siblings, but I’m exhausted. What do I do? -- TIRED IN THE EAST DEAR TIRED: Your family should talk to your brother as a group and discuss your concerns. His girlfriend is immature, insecure and controlling. He will be under her thumb for a lifetime if they marry. Ask him to clarify how honest he was when he said he was with her only because she had no one else. He may be so physically attracted to her he can’t think straight, which is why he seems to be willing to accept her manipulation and control. He should not support the baby without first talking to an attorney and insisting on a paternity test. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018: This year you make waves when you least expect to. Others look to you for leadership and organization. At times, you might feel burdened by their dependence. If you are single, someone of significance could enter your life close to your next birthday. When you meet this person, you will have a case of the butterflies. If you are attached, your union becomes stronger and more rewarding with the coming of cold weather. Both of you might take up a hobby of mutual interest. CAPRICORN openly shares his or her opinions. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Initial confusion leads to inspiration - if you can flow with the moment. Optimism surrounds you, especially when you deal with others on an individual level. As a result, you gain insight. Reorganization could benefit you and others. Tonight: Accept your role. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH A friend whispers some gossip in your ear. You might feel uneasy because of what you hear. Maintain your distance from this situation, and watch for the fallout. A loved one is likely to deliver a lot of goodwill and cheer. Tonight: Flex with the moment. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You don’t appreciate being lectured, and today is no different. Use your imagination to enhance a situation involving a parent or respected elder. Your sense of humor often saves the

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obstacle. Through your ingenuity, you have the ability to conjure up a solution. Do that, and you’ll feel great. Tonight: Make fun plans. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH You will note a certain amount of instability around your finances. If nothing else, your perspective could change. Your instincts lead you down a trail that might hold some positive events. You seem to know what is right for you. Tonight: Pay bills before deciding. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH All eyes seem fixated on you. Certainly, your magnetism draws others’ attention. One person, if not more, could be studying to see how you initiate an idea. Stay calm, and try to resist a feeling of wanting to push people away. Tonight: A force to be dealt with. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HH You instinctively know to take a back seat and not push yourself too hard. You could gain a lot of insight through this process. At times, you might want to interject yourself into a situation. Resist this urge, especially today. Tonight: Use your self-discipline. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You have the potential of energizing those around you, gaining their support and encouraging them to do what you feel is necessary. If you change your mind at the last minute, try not to cause a problem. Tonight: Allow yourself to be entertained. BORN TODAY Composer Claude Debussy (1862), poet Dorothy Parker (1893), actress Kristen Wiig (1973)

HOW CAN I TELL IF FISH IS FRESH? Dear Heloise: My doctor wants me to eat more fish, but I don’t know how to tell if the fish at a fish market is fresh or not. How will I know the difference? -- Shelley H., Crookston, Minn. Shelley, it’s always in the eyes, which should be bright and clear. A fresh fish also should have red or pink gills, and its scales need to be shiny. Never buy fish that has cloudy or sunken eyes. -- Heloise CUT GROCERY SPENDING Dear Heloise: Working in a grocery store, I see a lot of money thrown away on things that cause people to spend more than they had planned. If you really want to stick to your food budget, there are some things to do that will leave money in your pocket: * Don’t buy junk food. It adds cost but not nutrition. * Do a little planning ahead and use ingredients that you already have on hand for meals. * Avoid impulse buying. Stick to your list. If you can, leave the kids at home. Candy, cookies and other sweets are positioned to attract children. -- Shannon L., Jasper, Ind. FREEZING MILK Dear Heloise: Living alone, it’s inconvenient to buy milk so often. I save a few bottles, and now I buy milk a half-gallon at a time, fill and freeze. I take them out as I need them. -- Peggy H., via email Great way to save! And yes, freezing milk is perfectly fine. Don’t fill the bottle completely full -- the milk will expand when frozen. Caveats? Taste and consistency may change. -- Heloise NO BAG CLIPS? NO PROBLEM Dear Heloise: No bag clips? Use a paper clip or a safety pin. -- Meghan C., Grants, N.M.

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DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have been married 25 years and have three adult children who no longer live with us. We are religious and belong to a conservative church. We have a satisfying sex life. About 15 years ago we started using graphic language during our lovemaking. We find it exhilarates and enhances our experience. We do not call each other names; we use graphic words to express how good we feel during the act. The excitement I feel from this is cheaper than Viagra. Is what we are doing wrong? We are empty nesters. I worry about what would happen if our closest religious friends knew. Would they feel the same way toward us? I believe words become wrong when they are used for the wrong motive. When I use them with my wife for better sex, my motive is pure. Do you think other religious couples enjoy this activity? -- BEDROOM SECRET IN WEST VIRGINIA DEAR SECRET: Unless your religious friends have a hidden listening device in your bedroom, your worries are groundless. What happens in the bedroom between two adults -- as long as it is consensual and hurts neither one -- is OK and nobody else’s business. As to

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cover it with plastic wrap for 20 minutes. After the chili’s had a chance to steam, the tough skin peels off easily. Roasted Hatch chilies are one of the signature ingredients of the well-loved Green Chile Cheeseburger. Here I’ve swapped out the beef in favor of Portobello mushrooms. You’ll be looking for specimens with large caps because they shrink down when they’re cooked. And be sure to scrape out the gills before cooking the mushrooms (grapefruit spoons do a terrific job) because they become slimy when cooked and proceed to dye whatever they touch an unappealing black. Even without the beef, this burger is deluxe. It’s glorified not only by the chilies and cheese, but also by the smoky mayonnaise spread, and — the finishing touch! — the crushed tortilla chips. It’s a splendid way to celebrate the end of the summer season.

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Servings: 4 Start to finish: 1 hour 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice, divided 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 teaspoons minced garlic, divided 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 4 large portobello mushrooms, stems and gills removed 1/2 cup mayonnaise 3/4 teaspoon smoked paprika 4 chopped, peeled, roasted Hatch chilies (about 1 cup) or 1

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parchment paper-lined rimmed baking sheet, and spread into even layer. Drizzle rice with lemon juice and let cool completely, about 15 minutes. Heat vegetable oil in 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add half of asparagus with tips pointed in 1 direction and remaining asparagus with tips pointed in opposite direction. Using tongs, arrange spears in even layer (they will not quite fit into single layer); cover and cook until bright green and still crisp, 2 to 5 minutes. Uncover, increase heat to high, season with salt and pepper, and continue to cook until tender and well browned on 1 side, 5 to 7 minutes, using tongs to occasionally move spears from center to edge of

cup canned green chilies 4 thin slices sharp cheddar (about 3 ounces total) 1 cup crushed tortilla chips 4 hamburger buns 2 tablespoons melted butter for brushing on the buns Preheat the grill to medium. In a small bowl, whisk together 2 tablespoons of the lime juice, the vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon of the garlic, the cumin, and salt and pepper to taste. Brush all of the marinade on the mushrooms, making sure to coat the insides (where the gills were) really well. Set the mushrooms aside for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, in another small bowl, combine the mayonnaise with the remaining 2 teaspoons lime juice, the remaining teaspoon garlic and the paprika. In another bowl toss the chilies with salt and pepper to taste. Brush the cut sides of the buns with the butter and toast them on the grill. Set aside while you grill the mushrooms. Place the mushrooms on the grill, gill sides down, cover and grill them 6 to 8 minutes. Turn them over and grill on the on the other side, covered, until tender when pierced with a knife, another 6 to 8 minutes. Spoon one-fourth of the chilies on top of each mushroom. Top with one fourth of the crushed tortillas and a slice of the cheese. Cover and cook, until the cheese is melted, 1 to 2 minutes. Spread the cut sides of the rolls with the mayonnaise. Transfer the mushroom “burgers” to the buns and serve right away. Nutrition information per serving: 716 calories; 469 calories from fat; 52 g fat (13 g saturated; 1 g trans fats); 50 mg cholesterol; 851 mg sodium; 51 g carbohydrate; 8 g fiber; 7 g sugar; 13 g protein.

pan to ensure all are browned. Transfer to plate and let cool completely. Cut into 1-inch pieces. Whisk olive oil, shallot, lemon zest and juice, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper together in bowl. Transfer cooled rice to large bowl. Add asparagus, all but 2 tablespoons goat cheese, and dressing; toss to combine. Let stand for 10 minutes. Add 1/3 cup almonds and 3 tablespoons parsley; toss to combine. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle with remaining almonds, reserved 2 tablespoons goat cheese, and remaining 1 tablespoon parsley; serve. Nutrition information per serving: 347 calories; 148 calories from fat; 16 g fat (4 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 8 mg cholesterol; 861 mg sodium; 41 g carbohydrate; 4 g fiber; 2 g sugar; 11 g protein.

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launch or a big halibut fishing trip by charter, you take off from the shores of Cook Inlet in Ninilchik. This means you get up at early, early and be at the boat launch at 4:30 in the morning with rain gear, your lunch and drink. You will be out on the water in a well equipped fishing charter, hopeful catching the “big one.” After a long day at sea, going back when the boat gets to the beach there is a tractor waiting to pull the boat up on the trailer so you can get off the boat with your catch of the day. Most fishing guides clean and fix your fish for freezing and shipping. Then there is the long ride home well after 9 in the evening - but oh well, it is still daylight out! Don’t forget to take your visitors to the old mining towns, Valdez, Hope, Whittier. Or experience the ride from Anchorage to Whittier on the Alaskan railroad to meet a cruise ship to take you to Valdez. How about a train trip to Fairbanks, the highlight is a

stop at Denali, as the natives had named it. The highlight is slow ride over the Hurricane Bridge. Destination on the Alaska Railroad at Denali and the bus rides to see the “mountain” up close and the long, beautiful trip to Kantishna Lodge. You can snooze on the way back to your room and wait for the train to take you to Fairbanks. Back on the train headed for Fairbanks and the great mining areas and the great park at “Alaska Land” with all the museums of the old time mining, general homestead living and the a wonderful museum that housed the pioneers of the beginning of aviation era in Alaska. Float down the Chena River on a stern wheeler. We so enjoyed that ride. Our summer visitors from the Lower 48 get a peek at our home-style Alaska living. The first thing most of the visitors say is, “It’s so quiet here” and “Do you live here year round?” Comment range from “It’s so beautiful and much snow do you get?” We have answers for all the questions, after all we have told “our story” many times to visitors through the years. We have lived in the same place for over 30 years.

We gladly take them to our favorite fishing holes and our favorite places to go … as you see, summer times are our vacation along with our many visitors. When they about ready to leave, give a call to all your Alaskan friends and they will be right over with their favorite picnic dish and a big smile ready to meet a new friend from down below. Usually deep-fried beer battered salmon and halibut is what we serve while we sit around the famous Bob’s bonfire. Some days we just show them our “backyard,” fishing at Bishop Creek and Swanson River. On our way we show them our very favorite place to go almost every week — Captain Cook State Park. We look across the inlet to the land of 10,000 smokes, volcanoes in every stage of eruption. You also can float down the Swanson River by canoe ending almost at the mouth of Cook Inlet, Walking on the beaches of Captain Cook Park you can see the oil rigs standing on legs sticking up out of the swift water. Usually Bob can name each and every one of the 12 or 15 rigs. But the most important of

Basil salad dressing This requires fresh basil. This herb grows so well in Alaska’s warm long days. 1 cup sour cream 1 cup buttermilk ¼ cup Parmesan cheese 3 tbsp fresh basil – minced or 2 tbsp dried, sprinkled with very small amount of water ½ tea onion salt ½ tea garlic salt

1/8 tea celery salt Pinch of red pepper Combine all ingredients. Cover and chill at least 1 hour. Serve over those fine red Alaskan tomatoes, picked right from the greenhouse and sliced over torn bib lettuce.

all is to stop and smell the fireweed blossoms and the wild Sitka roses and show them your favorite spot to pick blueberries, raspberries, wild strawberries and currents. You do warn them of the “devil’s club” that attacks you if you wander too far off the beaten path. Watch out for the those devilish stickers and that big ol’ bear that may be watching you pick hi blueberries. We tell them of our “bear encounters” and mama moose and her babies. We end the summer days around Bob’s bonfire telling tall tales of Alaska. Most of them are true! Have a great rest of the summer that is sliding into fall way too fast! The Pioneer Potluck series is written by 50-year resident of Alaska Ann Berg of Nikiski. Ann shares her collections of recipes from family and friends. She has gathered recipes for more that 50 years. Some are her own creation. Her love of recipes and food came from her mother, a selftaught wonderful cook. She hopes you enjoy the recipes and that the stories will bring a smile to your day. Grannie Annie can be reached at anninalaska@gmail.com.

Beer cake baked on wood stove ½ cup dark molasses 2 tbsp butter or oil 1 egg ½ cup dark beer (any beer will do) 1 ½ cup flour ½ cup raisins ¼ tsp ginger 1/8 tsp each, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg ¼ cup chopped walnuts 1 tsp baking soda 1 tbsp sesame seeds Mix molasses an butter add eggs and beat well. Add beer,

alternately with flour. Stir in raisins, spices and nuts. Add baking soda. Stir to blend. Pour in oiled 8-inch baking pan. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Set on a trivet or jar lids in middle of stove. Cover with larger baking pan. Bake until toothpick comes out clean – probably about 45 minutes. In an oven, bake at 350 degrees for 30–40 minutes. Test to see if done. May bake sooner.

Beef or moose ribs in wine sauce Turn crock pot on high, lay in bottom 1 large onion sliced thick About 12–5 cloves of garlic Place: 2 pounds country style boneless beef or moose ribs on top In a small bowl mix: ½ cup honey mustard ½ tea garlic salt ½ tea pepper ½ tea thyme or marjoram ½ cup dry red wine ½ cup beef broth Cook in crock pot for 6–8 hours Take out ribs and place on warm platter. Make gravy by putting crock pot juices into sauce pan and add: ½ cup beef broth or 1/4 red wine and 1/4 cup broth– bring to boil Mix:

2 tbsp cornstarch with 2 tbsp cold water Stir into boil liquid and turn off burner and stir until thick. Serve with mashed potatoes, peas and carrots with butter and garlic bread. Bernie’s salmon cakes Bernie says that her husband, King, eats these like candy. 1 jar of canned salmon – or about 2 cups of left over salmon 1 egg 3 tbsp mayonnaise 2 tbsp sweet pickle relish 3 tbsp minced onion ¼ cup fine dry bread crumbs 1 tbsp oil Mix all ingredients together except oil. Form patties and fry in hot oil in frying pan. Fry patties till crispy on both sides. Great with horseradish sauce. Leftover patties makes great fish sandwiches.

Matzo ball soup that hits all the marks plus dumplings Matzo ball soup can be controversial to make, but there is no question that this version hits all the marks, delivering tender dumplings and a savory broth. For matzo balls that were substantial but not too heavy or greasy we settled on a ratio of 1 cup matzo meal to 4 eggs and 5 tablespoons of water, plus a bit of chopped, cooked onion and minced dill. For the soup, we turned to the classic mirepoix ingredients plus parsnip for a touch of sweetness. To deepen the broth’s chicken flavor, we added two whole chicken legs, which we removed after they cooked through. (The meat may be added back in if you like.) Chicken fat, or schmaltz, is available in the refrigerator or freezer section of most supermarkets. Note that the matzo batter needs to be refrigerated for at least 1 hour before shaping.

Matzo ball soup Servings: 6

Start to finish: 3 1/2 hours Matzo Balls: 1/4 cup chicken fat (schmaltz) or vegetable oil 1 onion, chopped fine 4 large eggs 1 teaspoon minced fresh dill Salt and pepper 1 cup (4 ounces) matzo meal Soup: 1 tablespoon chicken fat (schmaltz) or vegetable oil 1 onion, chopped 2 carrots, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch chunks 2 celery ribs, chopped 1 parsnip, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch chunks Salt and pepper 8 cups chicken broth 1 1/2 pounds chicken leg quarters, trimmed 1 teaspoon minced fresh dill Heat chicken fat in Dutch oven over medium heat until shimmering. Add onion and cook until light golden brown and softened, about 5 minutes. Transfer onion to large bowl and let cool for 10 minutes. (Do not clean pot.) Whisk eggs, 5 tablespoons water, dill, 3/4 teaspoon salt, and

1/2 teaspoon pepper into cooled onion. Fold in matzo meal until well combined. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour or up to 2 hours. (Batter will thicken as it sits.) Bring 4 quarts water and 2 tablespoons salt to boil in nowempty Dutch oven. Divide batter into 12 portions (about 1 heaping tablespoon each) and place on greased plate. Roll portions into smooth balls between your wet hands and return to plate. Transfer matzo balls to boiling water, cover, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until tender and cooked through, about 30 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer matzo balls to colander and drain briefly. Transfer balls to clean plate and let cool to firm up, about 10 minutes. Discard cooking water. (Do not clean pot.) For the soup: Meanwhile, heat chicken fat in large saucepan over medium heat until shimmering. Add onion, carrots, celery, parsnip, and 1/2 teaspoon salt and cook, covered, until vegetables begin to soften, about 5 minutes. Add

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Community events LeeShore Center board to meet The LeeShore Center will be holding its monthly board meeting at The LeeShore Center on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. The meeting is open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. For further information call 283-9479.

The Kenai Peninsula Food to host gala The Soup Supper Gala will be held at the Soldotna Sports and Recreation Center on Sept. 15. Doors open at 5 p.m. Buy-It-Now from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Buy a raffle ticket for your chance to win two Alaska Airlines tickets. There will be games, music, locally made soups, craft beers, wine, live and silent auction items and so much more

Pickleball tournament The Second Annual Kenai River Pickleball Tournament will be held on Aug. 25 at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. This is a round robin tournament with a single elimination finals bracket. There will be three skill divisions that include Advanced (4.05.0), Intermediate (3.5), and Novice (2.0-3.0). This is an non-sanctioned tournament but USAPA rules will be used. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doubles tournament will be from 8:00 am to noon and the Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Doubles Tournament will be 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5 p.m. For more information or to register visit www.soldotna.org or call 907-714-1211.

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Raindrops keep falling on the brews Undeterred by a steady downpour all day and all night long over a thousand craft brew lovers turned out for the 8th Annual Kenai Peninsula Beer Festival August 11th at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Soldotna with a mission to promote the appreciation of craft beer in a way that benefits the local community the event draws breweries and participants from all over the state and visitors from across the Lower 48 and countries

from as far away as Thailand and Germany. Headlining this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival was the nationally renowned Great American Taxi, who donned â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rotarians at Workâ&#x20AC;? vests and rocked through the rain into the night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since inception the goal of this festival has been to showcase the incredible beer that is produced around our state,â&#x20AC;? said Soldotna Rotarian Dr. Matthew Pyhala who created the event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are honored by the presence of breweries from across Alaska. Furthermore, our hope is to create a fun outdoor atmo-

sphere to sample craft brews while enjoying live music and delicious food. This festival has become a crowing moment for the end of our summer season in Soldotna. It is scheduled for a time in the summer when commercial and sport fishing is winding down. The city is getting a little quieter as the bulk of our summer guests depart for home. It has become a farewell to Summer, and welcome of Autumn on the Kenai. Undoubtedly the Kenai Peninsula Beer Festival is the most Kenai River Brewer wins Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice Best Brewery for 7th See BEER, page 2 straight year.

Carver wins the boat, kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; programs get the cash at Trustworthy For nine years, Soldotna Trustworthy Hardware & Fishing has been raffling off a Willie Boat motor and trailer Kenai River fishing package for the benefit of the Soldotna Little League and other community youth programs like Pop Warner football. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This raffle in particular has raised over $140,000 over the last 9 years for kids in our community,â&#x20AC;? said Scott Miller of the family owned Soldotna Hardware store. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a tremendous fundraiser for high school sports, Little League and all kinds of youth activities like Soldotna Youth Rodeo who weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supporting for the first time this year. The power boat tickets sold out in just under two weeks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; folks know if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get those tickets early you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a chance. We do still have a few tickets available for the drift boat package

and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll draw for that on the 31st of August. And weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already committed next year for two power boat packages. Jim Bittle of Willie Boats got this idea off the ground, he approached us ten years ago and asked if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to do a Willie Boat raffle for the kids and we said sure. He gives us a great deal at his cost so we can pass the funds on to the kids and Tote Maritime in Anchorage bring the boats up at no cost to us and then River & Sea Marine give us a great deal on the motor and trailer and this year weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be giving over $20,000 to these youth activities so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an awesome community effort and we thank everyone who

buys a ticket for supporting our youth.â&#x20AC;? It was a young Pop Warner player who mixed up and then reached her hand in the barrel basket to draw out the winning ticket, bought by Jack Carver of Soldotna. Son of homesteader Kenny Carver, Jack has bought a lot of raffle tickets over the years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; his aunt was Joyce Carver who the Soldotna Library is named after. Reached by phone, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy to win because I never do, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to help the kids of Pop Warner Football players show their appreciation for Willie this community and I was real- Boat raffle. ly surprised when Scott called and said I had won. I grew up fishing on this river and have a

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successful single fundraising event for our service club. We are proud of the work we do for the local community and the world. The festival’s proceeds are used entirely in local projects big and small. Some of these include the RAFT Fund which pays for travel to and from local hospitals and clinics for those who would otherwise have no transportation available. This need has grown in our community. We are proud to be able to help in this very basic way.” Every year participants vote for their favorite brewery and their favorite brew, two coveted awards the breweries display with great pride. This year, 27 craft breweries brought their wares to the festival and for the seventh year in a row Kenai River Brewery took the People’s Choice for Best Brewery. One of the first breweries on the peninsula, Kenai River Brewery has grown from modest beginnings in a garage to a large new facility with tasting and specialty food items that draw crowds all year long. “I’d say we have evolved with our community,” said Doug Hogue, one of the owner partners. Each year Kenai River Brewing doesn’t rest on their local support but aggressively works the festival with new creations and icons of humor. “We love to have fun at the brewery and we wrap it around whatever beer we’re brewing,” Hogue said. “Last year it was the Winter Warlocks and this year it was Street Ducks for our new Street Duck Mexican lager that we made especially for the festival. Our staff is the focal

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Willie drift boat, but this power boat is the Cadillac of river boats and I am totally going to enjoy it and put it to use. When I grew up here we didn’t have all the stuff that’s here today, but

point of the whole operation they have fun with their work and everyone loves to come to the brewery and tonight our Street Ducks loved dancing in the rain.” When it came to the Best Brew Award, however, the People Choice Award went toAlaska’s smallest production brewery: Palmer brewer Bleeding Heart for the “Grounds for Divorce Coffee Porter.” Being in production for just two years, Bleeding Heart brewer Zack Lanphier was thrilled to receive the award, “We only had about 5 gallons of our Grounds for Divorce here at the festival so we were surprised that it was the brew that people here decided to vote on,” he said. “It’s a humbling experience for sure, but our brewery is named and based on the human experience, so we name our beers with something that everyone is familiar with: heartbreak, comedy and satire, things that everyone can understand like Grounds for Divorce, Kold Shoulder and Valley Trash: Dirty Blonde those are the names of our craft beers that people understand the concept behind them. One of the things that brought us down here to the Peninsula was the support the other craft brewers here gave us and supported our growth. We’re the smallest brewery in Alaska and only make 30 gallons at a time and these guys here were so excited to see a little guy like us come through with the people’s choice vote for best brew. It’s great when the big guys want to help the little guys and not crush them. This is Alaska and you can taste the community spirit here.” You can learn more about Bleeding Heart and Kenai River Brewery buy logging in to their websites and Facebook pages. we had fun with whatever we had or could make out of stuff we found. I think it’s great that kids today have Little League and other things to do.” To get a chance to win the Willie Drift boat stop by Soldotna Trustworthy Hardware & Fishing and buy a ticket for the August 31st drawing.

‘The race for the rest of us’ draws non-runners The first ever Brewery to Bathroom .5k event, coincidentally or not, followed the Kenai Peninsula Beer Festival this year. No, that decimal point isn’t a typo — the actual distance of the non-run that was billed as “The Race for the Rest of Us” was indeed a half a kilometer. According to Alana Martin, who organized the unique event, the idea came following this year’s Relay for Life at 1 a.m. when the relay came in a little short of their fundraising goal. “The idea came from Mike Crawford that night after relay for a ‘No-Run’ race,” she said. “We were approximately $5,000 short of our goal for Relay for Life. I couldn’t resist and volunteered to plan/coordinate, did some research and found the .5k idea which I thought was pretty cool for those of us who don’t like to run. I partnered with Kenai River Brewery’s Wendi Dutcher, who is also on our relay committee and her husband Doug from KRB who donated 100 shirts – Sundog donated their design and time and we had lots of support from outside organizations once they heard about the idea. Soldotna Parks and Rec put up the blowup arch for us and helped map out the course and place the ‘de-motivators’ that hilariously lined the course. And of course what would a non-race be without a couch at the bottom of the one ‘very slight’ inclines along the way with the sign too tired to go on? Donate $5 to take a rest or $10 to quit now!” Additionally like all marathons there were two “refueling stations” with bagels, carbs, sugar donuts and other baked goods made from processed, gluten added, white flour. “After all, it took approximately 3 minutes to slouch through the .5k course and make it back to the brewery from the Soldotna Creek bathrooms,” Martin said. “Including the Couch 2 Couch participation and those who donated $30 to just stay home and we sent out the swag, we raised $4546 from 110 participants that pre-registered and the 100 some that

registered the day of the race. I don’t remember the winner’s name, but he carried his competition over the finish line before him so he could place last and win the ginormous tub full of cheese balls (and of course the non-bragging rights).” On a serious note, when asked if they or a loved one had been affected by cancer, everyone present raised their hands. “The importance of Relay for Life is a serious issue and our goal is to eradicate cancer,” Martin said. “American Cancer Society (ACS) is the leading funder of cancer research second only to the U.S. government. Funding research dollars, support for those battling and honoring those that have lost their battle. ACS CAN advocacy for research dollars and cancer prevention will someday kill cancer and no one will ever have to hear the diagnosis again that ‘you have cancer.’ Additionally ACS provides hotel stays, airline costs, support groups and rides to treatment for cancer patients.” More information is available at the American Cancer Society website. No word at press time as to whether the Brewery to Bathroom race would be repeated next year.

ABOVE: Wendell carries wife Wendi Dutcher over the mud puddle in a chivalrous act during the Brewery to Bathroom race. TOP: Last in takes 1st Place cheese puff award in the 1st ever Brewery to Bathroom un-race.

Community events School immunizations available Before school starts is a great time to talk to your healthcare provider or your local public health center to make sure your child’s vaccinations are current. For more information call Kenai Public Health Center at 335-3400.

CIRCAC to hold meeting The Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council’s Environmental Monitoring Committee (EMC) teleconference meeting will be hosted in Kenai on Friday, August 24th at 8am to 9.30am at the Cook Inlet RCAC Office, 8195 Kenai Spur Hwy, Kenai, AK 99611. The public is welcome to attend. For directions or more information call 907-283-7222 or 800-652-7222. Cook Inlet RCAC is a non-profit corporation mandated by Congress in 1990 to provide citizen oversight of the production and transportation of crude oil in Cook Inlet. Keeping citizens of Cook Inlet informed of our meetings is an important mandate, and we appreciate your willingness to help us promote our public meetings for our Board.

Nikiski Recreation Center activities —The Nikiski Pool will be closed for annual maintenance from September 3–24. The pool will reopen Sept. 26 for our normal winter hours. For more information, please check our Facebook page or our website. —Fall swim lessons: Swim lesson registration will begin Monday, September 24 at noon. Classes are offered for: Beginners, Advanced Beginners, Intermediates, Semi-Privates, Tiny Tots and Log Rolling. For more information, call 776-8800 — Youth flag football: 4th-8th grade boys and girls flag football season begins August 20 and will run through September. Games are held Monday and Thursday nights at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center Fields. For more information, please call 776-8800. — Artsy toddler time: Nikiski Community Recreation Center will be hosting and Artsy Toddler Story time on Tuesday, Sept. 4 at 11 a.m. for 2-5 year olds. Kids will get to do an art project based on a story read during the event. For more information, please contact 776-8800. — Toddler time: The Nikiski Community Recreation Center will be hosting Toddler Time on Mondays, Tuesdays & Thursdays from 11am-12:30pm. For more information, please contact 776-8800. — Women’s league basketball: Games will be held on Tuesday &/or Friday nights with games beginning in September. For more information, call 776-8800. —Open gym nights: Teen Center, Monday– Friday, 2:30–8 p.m. Full Swing Golf, Monday– Friday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m.

Fundraiser Dinner The second annual fundraiser for the “Saturday Lunch” program for Ninilchik students (pre-k through 6th grade), will be held on Sept. 22 from 5–7 p.m. at the community center on Kingsley Road in Ninilchik. There will be two delicious dinner options (one is vegan). A $10 donation is suggested. All proceeds go to support a weekend food program for elementary students. There will be a silent auction and dessert auction. Feel free to bring items for either one. Call 240-5212 for additional information.

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